Impact of the global chip shortage on the development of in-memory chips

Lockdowns due to the pandemic in the last two years forced a critical number of chip-making facilities across the world to shut down, giving rise to the chip shortage issues. Prof. Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang (National Tsing Hua University, TSMC-Taiwan), Prof. Huaqiang Wu (Tsinghua University-China), Dr. Elisa Vianello (CEA-Leti-France), Dr. Sang Joon Kim (Samsung Electronics-South Korea) and Dr. Mirko Prezioso (Mentium Techn.-US) talked to Nature Communications to better understand whether and to what extent this crisis has impacted the development of in-memory/neuromorphic chips, an emerging technology for future computing.