Is In Situ Electronics Fabrication Feasible on the Moon?
Publication: Earth and Space 2022
ABSTRACT
For sustainability, any lunar assets must be maintainable from local resources including electronics. We review the nature of electronics fabrication using solid-state manufacturing for transistors and determine that it is not feasible on the Moon. Material availability on the Moon suggests that an alternative technology—the vacuum tube—is feasible. The large footprint overhead of the traditional CPU-based architecture may be avoided by implementing recurrent neural network architectures. This model of general purpose computing closely resembles the original Turing machine in which a magnetic core memory acts as input to a 3D printer which outputs neural net circuitry.
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