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Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors
s spencer and others wrote in with submissions about Japan funding the development of diamond-based semiconductors to replace silicon chips. The main advantages of diamond include heat resistance and higher electrical resistance.
pentium iii=mitsubishi?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I heard in asia that people give mobile phones with diamonds in them as engagement rpesents, so maybe they are taking a stab at the engagement market :)>
"Pentiums are a girl's best friend"?
Okay, that's not funny. Taking off Score +1 Bonus.
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She's been pushing for a diamond for a little while now - I wonder if she'll be upset if she gets it in chip form rather than the traditional ring?
This is a breakthrough in wearable computers!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
I would say "yes," but why does the ring say "Intel Inside?"
The main disadvantages include the fact that diamonds are terribly expensive :)
I'm glad they waited until after I bought an engagement ring...
Intel may now become the United States largest diamond importer.
Just as long as the jewelry store doesn't put up a sign saying "Intel Insides Inside"
Imagine the overclocking!
When I die maybe I can become a CPU! Thanks to intel and lifegems http://www.lifegems.com Maybe Intel will want to buy grandpa when he croaks. In the future you'll be able to get a faster processor everytime a loved one dies!
I got my girl a diamond earing so she had some processing power above the neck.
Now SHE wants a beowulf cluster of these.
Here come the carbon-based artificial life forms.
We cue the pseudo-gangsta asian kid saying "Even mah pc is iced out FOOOL!"
How will we tell the people from the machines if we can't refer to them as carbon-based and silicon-based life anymore?
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...include... higher electrical resistance.
Is that all it takes? I have lots of stuff here that might be groundbreaking...
World awed by carpet-based semiconductor
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
True quartz has piezoelectric factors... but Diamonds can burn! Just like coal... except they explode due to the pressures inherit in their creation...
Overclocker1: Shit, wonder how many more degrees I can clock this baby...
Overclocker2: Did you remove the oxygen?
Overclocker1: What? Why?
*BOOM*
Okay, maybe not that drastic... but it's pretty nasty.
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They used to used vaccum tubes to build computers before. Some properties of vaccum tubes were inherently more valuable than heaps of sand.
How is it that they aren't using vaccum tubes any more?