Researchers develop smaller, more efficient space-tolerant computer chips

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-smaller-efficient-space-tolerant-chips.html#google_vignette

"challenging space environment: radiation alters data storage elements like flip-flops/ also extreme temperatures, debris... more compact rad-hard chips with equivalent or better radiation tolerance leads to lower manufacturing costs, higher performance/ energy efficiency... achieved in the way components/ transistors arranged... uses single basic flip-flops achieving same radiation tolerance without bulky triple modular redundancy... full system-on-a-chip prototypes to be tested/ deployed on a cubesat in 2026"

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