Hair-thin fiber chips turn garments into microcomputers
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Researchers at Fudan University have created fully flexible fiber chips that embed complete electronic circuits inside hair-thin strands, forming fiber integrated circuits (FICs) with high transistor density capable of processing digital, analog, and neural-style computing; these fibers survive thousands of bending cycles, washing, and heat, enabling self-contained computing in smart textiles and wearables, with early scalable manufacturing and publication in Nature.
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