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Sensational headline, but silicon still kicks ass.

On: Nanowires Four Times Faster Than Silicon

It's going to take years for these sorts of things to be made manufacturable. Meanwhile, if you give things another 4 years or so, conventional transistors made from doped silicon will be more than 4x as fast at about 1/100th the cost. While Moore's law is slowing down, it's not dead yet! We still have plenty of improvement to be had and the costs per transistor will continue to drop over time.

Nanotechnology is unlikely to make any significant impact in the next 10 years. We may make significant advances in the research lab, but that doesn't mean there will be any products. I'm thinking it may be slightly better than nuclear fusion...