Posted on 04/07/2014 11:23:16 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
...graphene transistors ibm circuits ....
IBM researchers just built the best graphene-based circuit yet: it sends text messages
Just my casual impression that in the past every story about graphene was a story about IBM research. Then out of the blue ( to me ) Samsung starts prototype production of a product.
I remember wafers.. rows and rows of ‘em.. those wafer testers were a bugger sometimes.
The whole Globe has been working on researching Graphene.
See my uodates...links.
Incorrect. Not Area 51, Apollo 22.
Good.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I think the Intel limitation is thermal. Faster clock rates increase dissipation so there is a natural practical limit to the clock speed.
Wow. Thanks much.
Back later.
agreed
starting to get interesting
the real question then becomes, what do you do with it? games? analysis? simulators? monitoring? proper AI?
we’ll still have issues with storage being dead slow... unless this tech opens doors to new storage mediums that store one bit per molecule ... addressable? SSDs at a molecular level and at 500GHz speeds? storage and memory become the same
“It’s becoming obvious mankind didn’t invent any of this stuff. This is clearly stuff being reverse-engineered from the Area 51 spacecraft.”
Along with Emacs and Lisp.
:-)
The wife and I went almost exclusively Samsung in our home. Our first plasma TV was a Samsung. Our fridge, oven, microwave, washer, and dryer are all Samsung.
IIRC, in the early 2000s, they brought on a huge R&D group that was eventual absorbed into them, and they've been making amazing products since.
IBM is using graphene for development right now. Samsung’s been leading the industry in new tech stuff with graphene, and this is apparently some of their labor’s fruit.
SEVERAL orders of magnitude. At this point, they're just fiddling with the matrix, meaning the wafers that go into semiconductors. Once they start stacking them and applying current, look out!
The current standard is 22 nm for processors, for instance. There's a finite number of wafers that can be crammed into a 22 nm space, and we're getting around 4 GHz consistently on newer chips.
If their numbers are correct, 500 GHz over a platter would mean multi-core processors with hundreds if not thousands of "cores" all computing at several hundred gigahertz. That's just at a server/desktop hardware level, which would be considered "macro." The excitement is coming in the form of mobile and even microprocessing power where your current iPhone/Android could be shrunk in thickness down to that of a piece of paper with processing power much higher than currently available. Wearable tech is also a possibility.
Interesting article. Perhaps what Samsung is doing in this wafer fabrication process shall pane out nicely for them.
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