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Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by baybal2 on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:06PM (#16601544)
>Some researchers have predicted that transistors built with ferroelectrics will never exceed 100 megahertz. And some think that building these devices will require very thick layers of ferroelectrics—too thick to be practical.

Wast amounts of low power MCUs are still built to function in single MHzs. A jump from milliamps to microamps is not a small deal.

Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by userbinator on Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:01AM (#16605547)
Less than 1MHz is also very common - some MCUs have the option of running from the 32kHz RTC oscillator in low-power modes.