First silicene transistors may lead to dramatically faster computers

[HEXUS]

Silicene might be favoured over graphene by the electronics industry.

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[lumireleon]

this sounds interesting

[peterb]

Vacuum transistors!

[ZaO]

So is this likely to be the next step before we get onto quantumn computers? I was wondering what would happen after they can't make these silicon based chips any smaller..

[shaithis]

So is this likely to be the next step before we get onto quantumn computers? I was wondering what would happen after they can't make these silicon based chips any smaller..

Hmm, I think we have a number of things to do before we try and go quantum!

For instance, I think once the stacking get's applied to CPUs, we should end up with very efficient stacked CPUs with tons of cores.
We also have targeted powering (like intel ntv) which again makes things more efficient.

and there are probably a ton of things people are working on as part of the design and manufacturing process that we haven't heard of yet.

[ZaO]

Hmm, I think we have a number of things to do before we try and go quantum!

For instance, I think once the stacking get's applied to CPUs, we should end up with very efficient stacked CPUs with tons of cores.
We also have targeted powering (like intel ntv) which again makes things more efficient.

and there are probably a ton of things people are working on as part of the design and manufacturing process that we haven't heard of yet.

You're probably right there! Last time I tried to look up the progress of quantum computers, it sounded like it was going to be many years until something like that would be available for consumers. I wonder what happened to those part organic computers I saw people working on quite some time back.. That was so weird and freaky..

[Kumagawa]

Oh look more single transistors how interesting /s

Sorry but a single transistor made in a lab is of limited future use in todays world of multi billion transistor chips. Get a very basic working chip out even just 1kb of memory and them I'll be impressed.

I can go back 10 years to lab made transistors smaller than 5nm but still no sub 14nm chips by anyone which is far more important.

[Kumagawa]

Oh look more single transistors how interesting /s

Sorry but a single transistor made in a lab is of limited future use in todays world of multi billion transistor chips. Get a very basic working chip out even just 1kb of memory and them I'll be impressed.

I can go back 10 years to lab made transistors smaller than 5nm but still no sub 14nm chips by anyone which is far more important.

[tygrus]

Quantum computing development in many ways is similar to the silicon IC integration of about 1960. It still has a long way to go to get to the integration complexity of even the 1990's. The benefit is that you can do more with less so it's not as far behind in terms of overall performance.