New Graphene-Based Transistors Could Make Computers 1000 Times Faster

Wall Street Pit ^ | June 19, 2017

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This sounds great, but have they figured out a way to produce graphene in useful quantities cheaply?

[varon]

Now you can get your porn 1000 times faster.........and watch sex acts that are so fast, they finish before they start.

Speaking of quickies.......

[tflabo]

Graphene could be a black girls name. Or Graphena. If she can run super fast then the name fits perfectly.

[Recon Dad]

IMLMAO!!!!!!!!!!

[American in Israel]

As silicon based transistors are down to a few molecules, I gain to see how swapping to carbon will make that much difference. Specially seeing that the mechanical array to manipulate a magnetic field will be huge in size by comparison.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“If you want to continue to push technology forward, we need faster computers to be able to run bigger and better simulations for climate science…..”

Of course that is # 1. If he means predicting the weather better, great. But I doubt that’s it.

Doesn’t matter what hook the writer thinks he has to hang the desire for teraflops on. You and I know it’s really for making dynamite computer games.

Not that I care about that . . .

[Durus]

Graphene is not two-dimensional. It has length width and height. A small dimension does not equate to no dimension, regardless of how much the ignorant press says so.

[bgill]

I don’t care about computer speed. Give me faster and more reliable internet speed.

[Stentor]

Silver going up or does it need to be pushed down?

[Pollard]

Yup, Everything’s moving to the cloud anyway so what good is a computer 1000 times faster if you are forced to use MS Office and Adobe Image editing software online?

[Moonman62]

Science-minded university freshmen could do worse than to major in materials science with an emphasis on graphene.

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That’s what graphene is good for, creating work for researchers, not much else.

[bar sin·is·ter]

And right there folks is the value prop...

[jonno]

Please excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know if graphene is as plentiful as silicon?

IOW - this is a great idea, but is graphene available and “manufactureable” in the quantities needed?

[I got the rope]

Faster computers so they can get the answer wrong 1000x faster.

[super7man]

I think the article is missing a paragraph. The one that says, "All the big problems have been solved with this new technology and all we need to do is get it into manufacturing."

Face-plant.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Microsoft has an operating system that will slow those new computers to a crawl. Then the “Blue Screen of Death”!

[aquila48]

It’s way over the head of the sap that wrote this piece of nothing. 99% is about how it “could” save the world.

[TXnMA]

"Please excuse my ignorance, but does anyone know if graphene is as plentiful as silicon?"

Very plentiful -- according to the Gorebull Wahrumists.

Maybe all the carbon they "sequester" would be a good graphene production feedstock... </SEMISARC>

[TigersEye]

I wish! The puter I have now is nothing to brag about but it still works 10X faster than my interwebz connection. And that’s allegedly 20mgps download speed.