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-- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a materials science
breakthrough at the atomic level that could pave the way for a
new class of non-volatile memory and logic chips that would use
less power than today's silicon based devices. Rather than using
conventional electrical means that operate today's
semiconducting devices, IBM's scientists discovered a new way to
operate chips using tiny ionic currents, which are streams of
charged atoms that could mimic the event-driven way in which the
human brain operates. Today's computers typically use
semiconductors made with CMOS process technologies and it was
long thought that these chips would double in performance and
decrease in size and cost every two ye