Fungi could replace silicon: Study shows mushrooms can store digital data

undefined 28, 2025

Source: interestingengineering

Researchers at Ohio State University are exploring mushrooms as eco-friendly, low-cost computing components. Shiitake and button mushrooms can act as organic memristors, devices that “remember” past electrical states, showing reliable memory effects like semiconductor chips. Fungal electronics are biodegradable, energy-efficient, and scalable, potentially powering brain-inspired computing, edge devices, or aerospace systems, though further miniaturization is needed for practical use.

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