France's hybrid Ising machine combines resistive memory and spintronics

French researchers demonstrated a hybrid nanoelectronic Ising machine for solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. The system combines resistive memory and spintronics to run part of the optimization algorithm in hardware.

• The Ising machine combines memristors and spintronic nanomagnets
• It tackles combinatorial optimization in hardware
• Built by French researchers, reported by SemiWiki