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Don't hold your breath just yet...
The beta of those transistors are still very low.. lower than 1 actually. Those guys just demonstrated that Graphene could be used ....
But before those transistors become really useful. they need to have gain at least 10.
And, they must be cheaper to manufacture...
So, before that happens... we still have silicon and GaAs (for 300GHz and up).
What will REALLY revolutionise the computer industry one day will be parallel processing (in other words: software. We still do not have proper compilers that can produce reliable code for more that 4 cores).. otherwise with graphene processors we will only have 1000x bigger and equally unreliable and slow windows OS or equivalent, just what we have today.
Last edited by bojan; 21-09-2010 at 09:26 AM.
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