The WEAF Mnecosystem - A Vision of Micro/Nanotechnologies to Empower the 6G and Super-IoT Future Paradigms

Nowadays, at the dawn of 5G deployment, specifications and architectures for what the future Beyond-5G and 6G are being studied, looking at the horizon of 2030. The envisaged massive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable self-evolutionary features of 6G and Super-IoT, will demand for more than what the 5G will manage to achieve. In this work, a potential limiting factor to the AI-driven 6G is identified in the approaches currently pursued in the design of Hardware-Software (HW-SW) systems. An important role is foreseen for Micro and Nanotechnologies (MEMS and NEMS) in empowering the functionalities of future 6G, triggering a reformulation of the standard conception of HW, thus overcoming the classical formulas pursued in the development of HW-SW systems