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It's not obvious to me how it could. Transistors require a semiconductor.
by anonymous_sorry 3y ago
It's not obvious to me how it could. Transistors require a semiconductor.
- disintegore 3y agoTo my knowledge, computers can be designed without any transistors
- entropicdrifter 3y agoThey can, but then you're talking about a totally different physical scale of computer. Transistors are useful because we know how to shrink them to a scale of nanometers, in particular we know exactly how to do that with transistors printed with lasers onto silicon chips. We'd have to reboot the CPU manufacturing industry with new base materials/technologies. It's hyper-specialized tech, so it'd probably take over a decade from now to be seen in useful, everyday technologies.