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18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design?
Scarlet X writes "Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a possible nonvolatile magnetic semiconductor and are investigating its use for 'spintronics,' an emerging technology that is concerned with manipulating and controlling the charge, flow and magnetism of electrons. The possibilities for the material 'cobalt green,' a paint developed by American Revolution era artists, as a spintronics material is exciting. Should the magnetic properties of the paint at room-temperature prove able to reliably control the wild spinning of excited electrons in a processor, not only could the size of processors reduce substantially, but the constant limiting factor, how to keep things cool, could disappear."
It definitely brings a new twist to the term "Prior Art"!
In this case it wouldn't apply, but given the subject mateer it had to be said.
Sven Rinman is spinning in his grave :)
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but the constant limiting factor, how to keep things cool, could disappear
I guess I'll have to buy a heater...
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Cobalt green is people!
;)
Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for electronics.
...them.
Can I have a hurrah for these?
We'll take our Cobalt Green, and a little Titanium White, and just paint some happy little resistors here in the corner.. they'll live right here right across the board from their little friends the capacitors beneath the happy clouds.
Goodnight Bob Ross, wherever you are!
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Can you overclock it?