[Red Badger]

PINGY!...................

[DannyTN]

[George from New England]

Probably will change the math from 1+1=2 always
to
1+1=2 sometimes

Just like liberal think.

[Carl Vehse]

Here's the ACS Nano article, "Nanometer-Scale Ge-Based Adaptable Transistors Providing Programmable Negative Differential Resistance Enabling Multivalued Logic."

[Bobalu]

Germanium transistors were there at the very beginning of transistor tech, what is old is new again...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...previously required 160 transistors, now possible with 24 transistors...speed and energy efficiency of the circuits can also be significantly increased...adaptive properties.”

That’s an astonishing breakthrough if it can be commercialized. Smaller, faster, lower power electronics coming.

[noiseman]

Someone must have gotten hold of a 2021 model crashed flying saucer.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

[backwoods-engineer]

This isn't unique; programmable-threshold MOSFETs have been on the market for years; I've bought them.

Germanium isn't going to be mass-manufactured; there's a reason it was left behind for silicon, and why SiGe has gotten so much attention in the last 20 years.

The idea of a separate control gate for minority carriers is kind of unique; maybe something will come of that. Indeed, that could be used to reduce the number of transistors required for a logic circuit. Sort of analogous to multiple-element vacuum tubes (valves for the Brits) or dual-gate MOSFETs but with more degrees of freedom.

[Renkluaf]

Cool