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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:Does Moore's Law end when things get too tiny? by jeffb+(2.718) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Smaller equals faster, and can equal lower power. Both of these are good for cellphones, and lots of other things.

    More to the point, this particular advance means fewer individual chips, which means cheaper.