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Nanowires Four Times Faster Than Silicon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-put-it-in-the-deep-freeze dept.

evileyetmc writes "Advances in nanowires have shown that they may be the future in cheap, high-performance electronics. Researchers at Harvard have shown that nanowire transistors are are least four times faster than existing silicon ones. These nanowires show promise in being able to be embedded in plastics, and could lead to devices such as flexible displays that process information in the screen itself."

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  1. Wrong Conversion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do breast implants have to be faster?

    1. Re:Wrong Conversion by Moqui · · Score: 5, Funny
      Just think of the distributed processing potential of the Los Angeles Basin! Millions upon millions of SETI cycles can be run just by the denizens of Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promonade. Drug research and nuclear explosion test data pulled from The Valley at an amazing clip.

      And people say that the owners of these devices are airheads. Nay! These are the future foremothers of the next great technological revolution -- GLDPs (Gonad Localized Distributed Processing). I for one applaud these persons of the technical cusp!

    2. Re:Wrong Conversion by szrachen · · Score: 5, Funny

      You missed the point... I think they are trying to get the fake ones to move naturally.

  2. Re:Electronic Paper by McBainLives · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, yes- solve the age-old problem of newspaper ink getting all over you hands- now that newspapers are virtually obsolete.

    One question though- say you wanted to do a flipbook-style animation using nanowire-paper. Would you just need the one piece?

    Is there a danger of accidentally opening up some 5th dimension by flipping through a book of nanowire-papers, each of which displayed an animated 3d image?

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  3. This will be expensive... by cycletronic · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... since whenever I get frustrated with buggy code I'll just crumple up the monitor and throw it away.

  4. Re:Ah, even more restrictive than HDMI by Hillgiant · · Score: 3, Funny
    Still doesn't close the analog hole, though...

    I hear the MPAA is working on Sharp Stick(tm) technology for that.

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  5. Out just in time by snoggeramus · · Score: 4, Funny

    4x faster? At least it will be out just in time for Vista.