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Re:Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors by buserror on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:08PM (#12710375)
I, for one, have a Germanium transistor in my 1964 Accutron Bulova watch. So there!

http://www.decadecounter.com/accutron/history.htm

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Re:Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors by jpmattia on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:13PM (#12710396)
Old joke: It's not that Germanium has a bad bandgap, it's just that room temperature is wrong.

[As it turns out, having a decent native oxide is also a winner.)

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