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South Korea's ETRI develops neural recording chip with 0.8µW per channel power consumption

IEEE Spectrum4/13/2026·04/13/26🌐 Asia

Summary

ETRI in Daejeon published results on a 256-channel neural recording ASIC consuming 0.8 microwatts per channel — a 10x improvement over state-of-the-art — enabling months of operation on a coin cell battery for untethered implants.

Why it matters

Power consumption is the primary size constraint on implanted BCIs. A 10x improvement in recording efficiency would fundamentally change what is possible in minimally invasive implantable device designs.

#Asia#BCI#Neural Interfaces#Neural Recording

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