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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. Re:Not ready for prime-time yet by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Me too. Imagine a ditzy stripper with a couple of HPC boobs?

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  2. Re:In other news.... by zippthorne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How do you synchronize timing across a 1 THz chip?

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  3. Re:Not ready for prime-time yet by pedalman · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Me too. Imagine a ditzy stripper with a couple of HPC boobs
    Greetings, Earthling. I am from Slashdot. Tell me more of these strange objects you call "boobs". Are they consumables?
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  4. Re:Wrong Conversion by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > Why do breast implants have to be faster?

    So we can build a Beowulf clusters of breast implants!

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