The First Plastic Computer Processor

jcombel writes "There's been a lot of talk lately about developing replacements for silicon; how about a nearly-transparent film of plastic, woven into clothing or affixed directly to equipment? From the article, 'Researchers in Europe used 4,000 plastic, or organic, transistors to create the plastic microprocessor, which measures roughly two centimeters square and is built on top of flexible plastic foil. ... The processor can so far run only one simple program of 16 instructions. The commands are hardcoded into a second foil etched with plastic circuits that can be connected to the processor to "load" the program. This allows the processor to calculate a running average of an incoming signal, something that a chip involved in processing the signal from a sensor might do.'"

Comments

Finally!

[evildarkdeathclicheo]

Now geeks can get socially acceptable plastic surgery.

Obligatory

[Even on Slashdot FOE]

16 instructions should be enough for everybody!

Re:Not the first plastic computer processor

[jbeaupre]

Even older, with more functions:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Slide_rule