---
title: "New Hybrid Oxide-Organic Microprocessor Developed"
description: "Holst Centre in partnership with Evonik developed a general-purpose 8-bit microprocessor, using complementary thin-film transistors processed at temperatures compatible with plastic foil substrates"
date: "2014-12-10"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "StefanCretu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/stefancretu"
url: "https://futurism.com/new-hybrid-oxide-organic-microprocessor-developed"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "computing"
---

# New Hybrid Oxide-Organic Microprocessor Developed

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/thinfilmhybr.jpg>)

- The new "hybrid" technology integrates two types of semiconductors, a metal-oxide for n-type TFTs and organic molecules for p-type TFTs
- The novel 8-bit microprocessor performs at a clock frequency of 2.1 kHz. It consists of two separate chips: a processor core chip and a general-purpose instruction generator
- The chip is divided into a hybrid complementary part and a unipolar n-TFT part and is capable of operating at frequencies up to 650 Hz, at an operational voltage of Vdd=10V