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This research is very exciting. Hopefully we will soon start seeing graphene being used to implement microprocessors, for massive performance gains, and possibl
by sdegutis 13y ago
This research is very exciting. Hopefully we will soon start seeing graphene being used to implement microprocessors, for massive performance gains, and possibly other technologies will follow suit. I can't help but feel like this is start of the leap in technology we need in order to become more like futuristic human societies in science fiction that have more advanced technology which, to us, seems like it can only live in science fiction. Yet it's important to keep in mind that this same thing was said about submarines as well as other technologies which have been invented since the publication of the works of fiction which contain them, but were not even thought of at the time, or at least were non-existent. I'm excited to read this article and see what breakthroughs we may have had.
- higherpurpose 13y agoI doubt we'll see "massive performance gains" from the very first version of such a chip. The gains will come mostly the same way we saw Moore's Law in silicon. So we'll get 5Ghz graphene processors, then 7Ghz ones 2 years later, then 10 Ghz 2 years later, and so on, until we reach TerraHerz a couple of decades later. Even if we do see somewhat big gains initially, it will probably have the price point to match, like we saw with SSDs, which were ~3x faster than HDD on average, but 10x more expensive per GB.