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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by minthd on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:09AM (#9685978)
Looking at [1], the price of low-volume of single gram of high quality carbon nanotubes is $250. Volume prices go further down.

According to [2] carbon nanotube layer could weight 0.1 gram/square-meter.

So basically we'll spend $25 for a square meter of chips(more precisely dies) - that's fractions of a cent per gbyte.Pretty insignificant.

[1]http://cheaptubes.com/carbon-nanotubes-prices.htm#Single_Lay...

[2]http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/02/large-sheets-of-carbon-nano...

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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by saosebastiao on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:13AM (#9686380)
The price of raw silicon is also extremely low, and just like silicon, the processing is the expensive part.
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Re:Nantero comes out of stealth mode: Carbon nanotube based ... by minthd on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @09:44AM (#9692087)
Sure the processing is the expensive part - but his requires regular chip processing("cmos process") as far as i understand.
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