IBM Scientists Find New Way To Shrink Transistors

MarcAuslander writes that IBM scientists have discovered a way to replace silicon semiconductors with carbon nanotube transistors, an innovation the company hopes will dramatically improve chip performance and get the industry past the limits of Moore's law. According to the Times: In the semiconductor business, it is called the 'red brick wall' — the limit of the industry's ability to shrink transistors beyond a certain size. On Thursday, however, IBM scientists reported that they now believe they see a path around the wall. Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.

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Re: Limits of Moor's law??

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the Law. Why do you question it?

Oh, because you can think critically.

The next person that quotes Moore's Law to me like it's anything other than an observation of one man that happened to be true for a decent period of time is getting a Lawgiver to the face.

Re: Limits of Moor's law??

[MyAlternateID]

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I salute your substantive and intellectually stimulating contribution to this discussion, sir or madam.