Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon

Asadullah Ahmad writes "IBM has created transistors made from carbon atoms, which operate at 100 gigahertz, while using a manufacturing process that is compatible with current semiconductor fabrication. With silicon close to its physical limits, graphene seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop. Quoting: 'Researchers have previously made graphene transistors using laborious mechanical methods, for example by flaking off sheets of graphene from graphite; the fastest transistors made this way have reached speeds of up to 26 gigahertz. Transistors made using similar methods have not equaled these speeds.'" The other day we discussed what sounds like similar research by a group of scientists at Tohoku University; that team did not produce transistors, however.

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My prediction

[Thanshin]

Year 2173:

"Hidrogen-Unobtanium polycomposites seems like a viable replacement until quantum computing gets to desktop."

Re:9x faster, not 10x faster

[Just Some Guy]

These transistors are only about 9x faster than silicon, not 10x faster as the Slashdot headline claims.

Oh, well, in that case don't even bother.