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Aren't optical transistors another option though?
by drdre2001 10y ago
Aren't optical transistors another option though?
- RandomOpinion 10y ago>Aren't optical transistors another option though? It will be a minimum of a couple more decades of research and hundreds of billions of dollars of retooling before any of the potential replacements for silicon surpass what currently exists now at the current price and volume of mass production.
- smaddox 10y agoOptical switches are extremely large compared to contemporary transistors, and there's no obvious way to scale them smaller than the diffraction limit.
- drdre2001 10y agoHopefully this kind of problem will be solved within a decade, do you think that's a reasonable time scale or is this problem even unsolvable?
- eloff 10y agoLike all research into the unknown it might prove easy (5-10 years) it might prove hard (20 years) it might always be 50 years away (hehe fusion) or it might just not be possible (faster than light travel).