Some may be skeptical about the environmental benefits of using plastic. While it’s true that they do use a polymer (read: plastic) substrate, each chip is just microns thick—thinner than a ...

Because bags of chips are made of metalicized plastic, they're hard to recycle, ... You pay a deposit, and they arrive at your door. When they're done, the company picks them up, ...

Chip designer Arm has unveiled the most complex flexible microchip yet. The PlasticARM is inefficient and slow compared to silicon-based chips, but could be printed onto fabric, paper, and plastic ...

The clearest one is how much energy the device uses. The chip consumes 21 milliwatts of power, but only 1 percent of that goes toward performing computations; the rest is wasted as the chip sits idle.