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Ultra-Thin Alternative To Silicon
An anonymous reader writes "There's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have successfully integrated ultra-thin layers of the semiconductor indium arsenide onto a silicon substrate to create a nanoscale transistor with excellent electronic properties (abstract). A member of the III–V family of semiconductors, indium arsenide offers several advantages as an alternative to silicon, including superior electron mobility and velocity, which makes it an outstanding candidate for future high-speed, low-power electronic devices."
I thought the purpose of silicone was to make the tits look *thicker*?
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
multiplied by millions or billions of chips. k.
He's only going to eat one... How many do you think the average person is going to eat?
Yeah, but if we need layers of about 10nm, I'm quite sure we have enough Indium to make a cpu that's larger than the entire surface of the Earth.
Wow. With a CPU that big, we'd have enough computational ability to figure out what the question of 'Life, the Universe and Everything' is. We should be able to speed that up, since we can work backwards from the answer. That'd be spiffy.
Maybe we could run the Hurd on it, too.
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