University of Michigan SRAM Chip Design Shrinks Space Telescope Power Budgets

By Neetika Walter · Interesting Engineering · 2026-08-03

Interesting Engineering reports that researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a custom memory-centric chip architecture aimed at future orbital observatories. By shifting processing closer to the data, the team reduced the estimated power consumption for real-time

Interesting Engineering reports that researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a custom memory-centric chip architecture aimed at future orbital observatories. By shifting processing closer to the data, the team reduced the estimated power consumption for real-time