Graphene.Posted on 04/07/2014 11:23:16 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Graphene is slated as the major breakthrough of this century. Infact it could very well propel the semiconductor a couple of decades easily (compared to the performance trend via Moore’s law ). Graphene transistors are more than capable of being clocked at 500Ghz so you get the idea of what Samsung is claiming to have achieved: a replicateable production process of Graphene nodes.
Graphene.
OK, I admit, I was being slightly sarcastic when I wrote the headline. It seems sort of ironic that if Samsung’s claims turn out to be true then the first Graphene processors will be in future wearable devices instead of lets say, desktop computers. Of course, Samsung can be forgiven for saying this considering its a primarily mobile company after all, but it still stings to a PC Enthusiast like me. Graphene, aka the miracle material of the century, to be used in future smart watches; seems like an extract from Douglas Adam’s Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Anyways, enough of my rant. On with the specifics.
This breakthrough was claimed at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Basically they used a common silicon wafer with Germanium substrate to manufacture a mono layer mono crystal Graphene impression on top of it and then remove the silicon wafer (and germanium) from below. The silicon wafer can then be reused which is pretty great. Also since the Graphene is removed from the germanium using a completely dry process the Graphene is completely wrinkle free which basically means that the construction of the crystal is completely clean and low in defects. Since both the germanium substrate and silicon wafer can now be reused ( in previously known production processes the germanium substrate had to be burned off) it will exponentially increase, mass production capabilities. Samsung has started production of Graphene Field Effect Transistors (gFET)
* by CPUs I mean SoCs, but that didn’t sound so poetic up there.
Samsung researchers claim graphene breakthrough
The Telegraph ^ | 4/4/2014 | Sophie Curtis
Posted on Sat 05 Apr 2014 06:51:29 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
cool
Skynet thanks Samsung.
Dammit. My graphene phone briquetted itself!
Whoa, this is a big deal if true. Having to burn off the substrate was a big drawback and a major problem for mass-production. They’ve essentially made a reusable die for the graphene matrix, bumping the reproducibility of the product manifold. This is very exciting and could lead to a revolution in computing.
My prediction: 100+ cores on one server proc die by 2020.
And it wasn’t that many years ago the electronic stuff from Samsung was considered the cheapest junk you could buy! But my cheesy microwave still works, and I just got one of their tvs. But when they first hit the market here they were considered to be junk.
I thought IBM were the leaders on this on. Did they let it get away from them?
500Ghz transistors!
When you need raw processing power...faster is always better.
At 500Ghz a lot of strange stuff will be possible.
Carbon sequestration = GOOD!
It’s becoming obvious mankind didn’t invent any of this stuff. This is clearly stuff being reverse-engineered from the Area 51 spacecraft.
I went to a gas grill, so my yard’s intelligence has obviously dropped.
Most of this stuff is electrical in nature. Given the predisposition to anal probes, I guess that most aliens used waste to power their craft.
Or should that be Ass-End-ing?
You tell me, Laz. You seem to be educated in the art of dick-tion.
I think IBM is working on some sort of diamond chip.
Implantable? Coming soon.
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