the_dengle on 04 April 2013
| RicardJulianti said: I present to you, graphene. http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-interconnects-integrated-circuits/11934/ Not only that, it could be used purely in the processor and theoretically, all components requiring silicon. Graphene offers up almost 0 resistance, so speeds are astronomical. Graphene antennas are currently capable (in this early prototype form) of wireless data transfer rates of 100tb/s. For a comparison, the Xbox 360 has a memory bandwidth of ~22gb/s through silicon. Graphene will take a while to completely replace silicon in components, but in the meantime it will greatly help in keeping Moore's law in effect. Graphene is also only 1 atom thick, and producing it doesn't cost a lot. Scientists recently took a consumer grade LightScribe DVD burner, and placed over 100 graphene micro-supercapacitors on a single disc in under 30 minutes. This helps the whole....economical problem as well as size constraints. 14nm fabrication? Please. Carbon atoms are .22nm in diameter.....try wrap your head around that one as a processor. o.O Once science gets cracking on implementing graphene regularly, Moore's law should be just fine. |
If anything is right about this world, the person who patented this technology will officially name it Blast Processing.
