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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. 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.

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

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

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