Breakthrough Grows Graphene On Silicon Substrate

eldavojohn writes "A new paper entitled Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon toward Graphene-Silicon Fusion Electronics published by a group of physicists at Tohoku University in Japan has demonstrated that they can grow graphene on a silicon substrate and pair that technique with conventional lithography to create a graphene-on-silicon field effect transistor. For quite sometime we've been discussing the supermaterial graphene being used like silicon improving everything from memory density to transistors. Given this demonstration, are we witnessing the start of a new era in electronics or are there more hurdles to clear before the manufacturers adopt this fabrication process and embrace graphene?"

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Self-replicating computers

[BadAnalogyGuy]

The real breakthrough in computing will be computers that can replicate themselves. Biological creatures can do this already. Cells replicate constantly, and the totality of this replication is our own existence. If computers could do this on their own, it would be a huge step forward in the development of reliable systems.

The asians are killing us at this. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/01/0922205

Re:Self-replicating computers

[Anonymous Coward]

Did your multiple degrees help in crafting this completely irrelevant post in an attempt to sound erudite?