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IBM Nanotechnology Transistor Faster than Silicon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slip-through-the-tube dept.

Dustin Destree writes: "This article on MSNBC talks about how IBM has developed a new transistor based on nanotube technology that at its first stages outperforms even the fastest silicon transistor. Interesting read that gives ideas about where the computer industry is heading in the next few years."

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  1. Nanotechnology by 56ker · · Score: 1, Redundant

    With the inherent limits imposed upon the current silicon chips, gallium arsenide being so far impractical & expensive it seems nanotechnology is the only way to go if we are going to get faster computers. The Japenese high-tech companies realised this ages ago and ploughed the profits made from silicon chips into nanotechnology research. Now it's finally showing some results.

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  2. Does this mean... by blake213 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...that the Silicon Valley will one day be called the "Nanotube Valley"?

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  3. Better Article on ZDNet by libertynews · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Can be found here

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