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MIT's Hybrid Microchip To Overcome Silicon Size Barrier
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."
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.
i should get my girlfriend to use silicon to overcome her size barrier.
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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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