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Re:The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene ... by bbrizzi on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @12:50PM (#4261602)
I might not understand the article correctly but only the contacts seem to be made of graphene. The canal is still made of SiC with far lower conductivity than graphene so it seems to me that the speed improvements wouldn't be as tremendous as what the article claims. Don't expect 100 GHz CPUs landing any time soon.
Re:The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene ... by ambertch on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @02:47PM (#4262226)
Yeah I was thinking about that too. Though if the limiting factor for switching speed is the impedance of the interconnects (I'm guessing it is), makes sense.