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Carbon chips are almost here
ANALYSTS AT GARTNER have got all excited about the fact that carbon chips are now ready for mass production.
The company reported that carbon chips appear destined to supplant silicon as the material of choice for future semiconductors.
After throwing the I Ching, Gartner's oracles foresee that carbon can surpass silicon's abilities in thermal performance, frequency range and perhaps even superconductivity. They also saw something about six white horses pulling a superior man but could not work out what that was about.
Dean Freeman, senior analyst at Gartner, said that diamonds are a geek's best friend and will probably be the first carbon chip seen.
He said work had been going on using diamond chips for 15 years and thus diamond is the closest form of carbon-based chip to becoming commercialised.
Diamond offers 10 times the heat dissipation of silicon and has been used for 40nm to 15µ diamond films on silicon wafers.
The next form of carbon to be developed for use in chips will be two-dimensional carbon-3, which is called graphene. Semiconductors fabbed using graphene could kill off silicon chips by attaining 10 times better electron mobility, Gartner said. µ
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Quasi Crystalline Graphene is what comes out of all of this. This will change everything we know today. Through multi frequency multi emitter interferometry self ordering near perfect graphene crystals can be generated. I am frankly surprised that this quantum level technology will come to light so soon.
After the graphene boom will come micro laser optics logic. I saw a working example of this 20 years ago. I am still happy to see graphene technology come to light.
So much suppressed technology so little time...
I'll propose to my girlfriend with a 6-GHZ diamond ring.
I always wondered what happened to diamond chips. I remember seeing them on Tomorrows World or something about 15 years ago.
lol, just kidding. Let's see, that's what about 150-200Ghz to play with?
And the Linux distros will still be able to run on P3s, lol.
The russians have always been using diamond for years.
Recent research shows that chips with graphene will need lower power at much higher frequencies (THz !!!). They produce much cleaner signals.
This will also allow further minimalization.
maybe we'll see another drop in solar cell prices. If the supporting hardware also becomes less expensive, silicon solar cells may truly become viable.
Or, they'll just throw the toys out of the pram and mothball the silicon ignot fabs. :^(
mmmm....less silicon in chips means more silicone for breast implants....mmmmmm...
Silicon Valley will be renamed as Carbon Valley?? Not so glamourous..
Especially man-made carbon. Al Gore said it, so it has to be true. Even Barak Obama, the great knower of everything, has said that we must put a price on carbon. These chips are dangerous and will push Earth's climate system beyond the tipping point.
And no need to worry about such insignificant details as the difference between carbon and carbon dioxide: Carbon is bad in all its develish incarnations.
You guys at the Inq are always so anti-silicon, it makes me sick. You're just haters all!
excellent. now, where's drashek?