FAST! IBM Develops 100GHz Transistor Device

[Guest]

They should put that in the iPad.

 

[necronic]

I don't get the impression that more than a couple people here understand what this article means. In short, it doesn't really mean much. This is like the earliest stage of development, you have no idea how many things get developed like this that you will never see again. See carbon nanotube high def TVs for an example

And on that note, IBM must know something we don't about the price point of graphene, because for them to be dev'ing with graphene instead of with carbon nanotubes (kind of but not exactly a rolled graphene and much cheaper and way more interesting properties) is kind of confusing

The real hurdle for both graphene or CNTs is the difficulty of bulk production. With nanotubes growing/cutting them to an exact length and diameter (which effects metallic vs semiconducting properties) and placing them somewhere is remarkably difficult, and graphene, well graphene is simply one of the most expensive materials known to man.

Anyways though, still cool to see people messing with the funky carbons. There has been speculation on what you can do with these super molecules for a long time, and I am glad to know that the lack of market realization for either of them hasn't killed development or interest in either.

 

[necronic]

oooph. Just read that zero bandgap comment. Yeah, good luck making much with that.

Also though, just for fun.

"With this processor you CAN divide by zero!"

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]ryansilversimpson[/nom]They should put that in the iPad.[/citation]
And it STILL wouldn't multitask

 

[Guest]

Fun !!! Fun!!! to read u guys comment.
Anyway..this is what we called technology, it has to keep improving.
maybe US defense system are using this long time ago.

OR maybe alien has drop their old tech piece to IBM.

 

[marraco]

it does not matter if it can run at 10000 ghz. The problem is: If you add billions of those transistors, how much heat they produce? how much energy they produce?

With the technology on the i7/Phenom II, Is possible to run far more than 4 ghz, but those processors have so many millions of transistors, that they melt by his own heat, and consume too much power.

 

[kenwheeler77]

Now, to apply this new graphite technology to the axles of pine derby racers.... this opens up a whole new field in pine derby racing!

 

[palladin9479]

Umm many of the posters don't fully understand what their talking about. A single transistor capable of 100 Ghz does NOT equal an entire CPU running at that speed. This is only about 2.5 faster then current transistor tech, and while 250% faster is friggen huge, its not "100Ghz" faster huge.

Second is construction tech, they assembled a logic gate in a lab with special equipment designed to make nano tech. This is basically nanotech on a chip, nanotech has been around for a few years and where are those "super mini robots doing everything for us"? The tech to manufacture this at an economical level is just not there. We're talking a layer that is a single atom thick, saying that it is "difficult" to produce is the understatement of the next decade. Maybe in 10 years we can see this tech become a reality, but for now its just research (justified research).

 

[back_by_demand]

Interesting that people think pure graphene CPU's will cost millions of dollars, it may very well be $44 million per gram, but realistically as it is 1 atom thick you could probably have a sheet of pure graphene the size of a football pitch for 1 gram.

 

[jfem]

Wow!

 

[jfem]

Wow!