Materials Breakthroughs Paves Path to 2D Transistors

Tom's Hardware ^ | 19 January 2023 | Mark Tyson

[ShadowAce]

[Red Badger]

Will this mean faster pr0n?................

[ShadowAce]

heh

It'll mean smaller/faster/more dense chips in the future....

[Boogieman]

“atom-thick transistors”

Still not technically 2D. And if scientists aren’t going to be technically correct, then who will???

[bk1000]

Layer by layer. Wouldn’t that be 3D?

[Red Badger]

While it may mean more powerful computers for scientists and engineers, The average person doesn’t need any faster computer to flip thru FakeBook and YouTube videos or writing emails to friends and relatives.

Of course energy consumption will be a problem when all the cars and trucks become an anchor on the power grid.................

[reviled downesdad]

How much current and voltage can be tolerated? Logic level stuff only probably but how will all the heat be conducted away?

[one guy in new jersey]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
—OGINJ

[one guy in new jersey]

Power consumption by devices drops when advances like this are made and proven to be practical/scalable where the rubber meets the road (i.e., within the fabrication plant).

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Uh, no such thing is possible. 2D is a mathematical abstraction--an x axis, a y axis. Anything in the real world has to be 3D, and have a Z axis. It can be very very thin, but no way it can be 2D in reality.

[TalBlack]

“…developing processors with over a trillion transistors, by 2030.…”

Heat the house with that baby.

[dearolddad]

Will this mean faster pr0n?...........

I certinally hope so!

[The Antiyuppie]

“heh
It’ll mean smaller/faster/more dense chips in the future....”

=faster pr0n.

[Revel]

It means stronger AI, more advanced weapons of mass destruction, More memory to store the lives of every individual on earth, and much easier control of them.

[itsahoot]

Of course energy consumption will be a problem when all the cars and trucks become an anchor on the power grid................

Not really they are going to solve that problem by requiring your car be attached so that it can power the grid in emergencies. They announced that plan this week, they did not however recommend a way for the person to get to work the next day.

The big new plan is the 15 minute cities, you know like we had in 1700.

[itsahoot]

How much current and voltage can be tolerated?

Apple's new MN chip claims 13.9 trillion transistors already.

[itsahoot]

It means stronger AI, more advanced weapons of mass destruction,

Well we wouldn't let our Creator rule over us so He is letting us build our own ruler.

[AdmSmith]

Nice, more 2D materials like graphene. A good background is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_metal_dichalcogenide_monolayers

[FrankRizzo890]

Anyone else here object to the “2D” designation?

I don’t care if it’s only 1 micron thick, that’s STILL 3D.

It might be less! But there’s still a quantifiable thickness to it, and as such, 3D.