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Flexible 6502

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One of the most interesting news of the last week comes from David Schor, author for WikiChip Fuse. And it's once again about the 6502 - or rather a modern incarnation of the 8-bit CPU.

The reasons why processors like the 6502 are still being built almost 50 years after their release, are certainly manyfold. Manageable complexity, extremely low power consumption, relatively small netlist and an enormous amount of software and toolchains available. Western Design Center still produces a modern offshoot of the CPU successfully and in quantities.

However, the really interesting innovation we are talking about here, is a completely different one and is called FlexlogIC.

The Flex6502 is a fully functional processor on a flexible substrate just 30 μm thick. Scientists at the University of KU Leuven developed the technology together with partners imec and PragmatIC Semi and call the result "TFT-based processors".

There are certainly plenty of application scenarios for it, the question remains whether and when the technology will be commercially available.

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