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CNFET Rivals Silicon Performance

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-ahead dept.

Baldrson writes "Applied Physics Letters is carrying a paper on a CNFET (carbon nanotube field-effect transistors) advance that now rivals silicon performance for both n and p type devices. There is also a New York Times article in which it is reported that "it would be two to three more years before I.B.M. was ready to work on prototypes of future nanotube chips and as many as 10 years before they would be commercially available". This is may be what's at the end of the road for CMOS."

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  1. "CNFET"? What's "CNFET"? Give us "Nanotech"! by Baldrson · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Actually I submitted it to /. first thing yesterday morning and when I came back from taking a shower I saw it had been "accepted" and at the same time IBM Nanotechnology Transistor Faster than Silicon appeared as the top story on /. which was due, I presumed, to the fact that someone found this story being submitted by more than one person and decided to go with the shorter version of it.

    Guess I should have said "Nanotech" in my Subject instead of "CNFET".

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