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IBM Reports Carbon Nanotube Chip Breakthrough

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-step-closer dept.

First time accepted submitter yawaramin writes "IBM has apparently made a breakthrough in arranging carbon nanotubes into the logic gates necessary to make a chip. This should help miniaturize and speed up processors beyond what today's silicon-based technologies are capable of. The article notes though that perfecting the carbon nanotube technology could take up the rest of this decade."

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  1. Re:URL for the IBM research paper and press releas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't wait for marketing to get involved, changing high-density carbon nanotube transistors (CNTs) into carbon ultra-nanotube transistors.

  2. Re:Apparently? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes.

  3. Re:Apparently? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    "IBM has apparently made a breakthrough..." They either have or haven't made breakthrough. "Apparently" doesn't really cut it I'm sorry

    Well, at such a small scale, everything is controlled by quantum mechanics. Oh, excuse me: everything at such small scale may or may not controlled by quantum mechanics.

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    Ezekiel 23:20