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How much of the ease of using silicon is due to its inherent properties, and how much is due to the many billions that have been sunk into R&D?
by redthrowaway 15y ago
How much of the ease of using silicon is due to its inherent properties, and how much is due to the many billions that have been sunk into R&D?
- Unseelie 15y agoI'm going to hazard that a lot is based on inherent properties. probably 'most' of the ease. They were mucking around with silicon computers with basically hobby chemistry sets back in the fifties and sixties, where today, with some of the best materials science we have, we're only able to manipulate graphene on the nanoscale..