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Chinaโ€™s new chip stores data with a single electron, breaking AI memory bottleneck

How many electrons does it take to store a single bit of information? For todayโ€™s most advanced dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips from Samsung and SK Hynix, the answer is roughly 200,000. That is the price of reliability โ€“ a vast reservoir of charge needed to ensure a โ€œ1โ€ or โ€œ0โ€ does not fade into noise. But a team at Fudan University in Shanghai has just collapsed that number to its theoretical floor: one. In a paper published on July 16 in Science, microelectronics professor Zhou Peng...