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The Substance Found in Pencils will Speed Up our Computers One Thousand Fold
- hga 17y agoCheck this out, it sounds like it might be fairly near term stuff, e.g. Fujitsu is depositing it on Si wafers, IBM has preliminary (large and hopefully slow) 30GHz test transistors, which is where Si maxes out according to a linked article at the bottom.
- vl 17y agoAs it quite often happens it's better to read wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene than to suffer through things like "substance found in pencils"
- po 17y agoI hate how science writers get to the part of the article where they have to write about why it is useful. They usually start dipping into their stock cliché material. This one is particularly bad. The whole last half of the article is junk.