Nanowires Four Times Faster Than Silicon

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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Re:Not ready for prime-time yet

[Gospodin]

As time goes by, supply and demand will dictate the price of this new technology.

Obviously true, but the supply curve is largely determined by production costs. So if production costs remain high, the price will not fall.

That said, the history of technology is encouraging in the sense that production costs often fall - a lot.