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MIT's Hybrid Microchip To Overcome Silicon Size Barrier

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keeping-up-with-the-moore's dept.

schliz writes "MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip. The method could be further developed to combine other technologies such as spintronics and optoelectronics on a silicon chip. It is expected to be commercialized in a couple of years, and allow manufacturers to keep up with Moore's Law despite today's shrinking devices."

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  1. Hybrid microchip by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Funny

    MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip.

    Arthur: What do you mean, an african or european gallium nitride layer?
    Bridgekeeper: Both! That's why it's an hybrid!
    Arthur: I didn't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!

    1. Re:Hybrid microchip by Fred_A · · Score: 3, Funny

      MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip.

      Arthur: What do you mean, an african or european gallium nitride layer?
      Bridgekeeper: Both! That's why it's an hybrid!
      Arthur: I didn't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!

      Meanwhile, a few hundred years later...

      Customer : So, um, I'll only have to refill my computer half as often right ?
      Best Buy Salesperson : Actually it so happens that we have a promotion on computer tanks in the next aisle.

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  2. Hey now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > "...despite today's shrinking devices."

    It's not the size of the device, it's how you use it.

  3. Re:Beowulf by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those... in my smartphone.

    Eventually the smartchip in your credit card will get bored, nano-build a wifi connector out of the card's polymers and connect to the net, building its own Facebook page and getting more friends than you have. And then Skynet wins teh interwebs.

  4. Great idea by AP31R0N · · Score: 4, Funny

    i should get my girlfriend to use silicon to overcome her size barrier.

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    1. Re:Great idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      i should get my girlfriend to use silicon to overcome her size barrier.

      Perhaps she'd say the same about you.

    2. Re:Great idea by RivenAleem · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd certainly layer then!

    3. Re:Great idea by rcamans · · Score: 1, Funny

      heh heh heh. Hey, he said girlfriend! heh heh.

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  5. Microchip is not a word by onkelonkel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, ok, it is. But in my day we called them chips. A micro was a microprocessor. So unless you were talking about a microprocessor chip, using the word microchip marked you as a clueless non-technical luser of the sort that writes the science articles for the local paper. Now get off my lawn, uphill both ways, in the snow.

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  6. That's step 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Step 1 is to get her to overcome the virtuality barrier.