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We already have discovered such a material and it's hardly exotic. Graphite chips can be clocked a couple orders of magnitude faster than silicon. The issue is
by fallingknife 3y ago
We already have discovered such a material and it's hardly exotic. Graphite chips can be clocked a couple orders of magnitude faster than silicon. The issue is manufacturing them.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoThat sounds like relevant tech that could take off if there's enough investment, but isn't likely to see returns for years to come...the exact kind of thing VC seems allergic to. The bleeding edge is expensive to cut and companies are still reeling from their overly enthusiastic hiring sprees so I hope in a couple of years they will have sorted house and start paying people to play with the future.
- Apocryphon 3y agoI’m still disappointed we’re not exploring photonic circuitry or DNA computing or all the gee whiz speculative fiction post-silicon ideas from twenty years ago.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoThere's a guy at work who is convinced photonic circuits would solve a lot of problems. I imagine if we can start growing perfect crystals of some sort to be used in photonic chips, we can use them, but my understanding the speed of a copper circuit is already relatively close to the speed of light so that's not really the limiting factor of our current chips.