IBM Reports Carbon Nanotube Chip Breakthrough

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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Re:Apparently?

[K. S. Kyosuke]

"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.