Re:Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors
by Symmetry on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:25PM
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I'm sure that people will be able to create very fast carbon nanotube transistors (CNTFETs) in the future but that isn't currently the problem. Generally when you're creating normal silicon transistors (MOSFETs) one out of every billion or so is bad, meaning you have to fuse off some block of cache or maybe an entire core but multi-billion transistor chips are possible when you do stuff like that.
My understanding of the state of the art of CNTFETs right now is that only having one out of every 10 be bad would be a significant advance. So making 10 transistor circuits is maybe feasible but nothing larger. And even the 8086 had 20,000 transistors.
There's a lot of work that has to be done before CNTFETs are ready to be used in computers.
My understanding of the state of the art of CNTFETs right now is that only having one out of every 10 be bad would be a significant advance. So making 10 transistor circuits is maybe feasible but nothing larger. And even the 8086 had 20,000 transistors.
There's a lot of work that has to be done before CNTFETs are ready to be used in computers.