Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has designed a new type of computer, memcomputer. This computer will not only store information, but would also process it in the same place, known as collective state.

Lead researcher Professor Massimiliano Di Ventra said that in the name of a prototype, they do not have much more than a Proof Of Concept (POC). But the new design is based in part the way human brain works.

Ventra has agreed that there are many issues that they need to sort out before memcomputer can be manufactured. It is not the first time when the concept of memcomputers has been introduced. For the first time, the concept was presented in the 1970s.

Currently, all focus is on quantum computing, which is based on atomic-level physics. It is being said that such type of devices will be built one day, but they would require quite a specific environment to operate.

Therefore, there is a need to find an alternate architecture and search for the same continues. Today's computers take longer time to come up with solutions. Experts said that it is because they solve problems through step-by- step iterative process in which data is shuffled back and forth billions and trillions of times.

On the other hand, a memcomputer might only take a few thousands, hundreds of thousands iterations to answer the same problem. Professor Di Ventra said, "memcomputers can be built with standard technology and operate at room temperature. This puts them on a completely different level of simplicity and cost in manufacturing compared to quantum computers".