Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
by dzhiurgis on Thursday July 09, 2015 @06:33AM
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Graphene looks promising (as it is for everything).
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Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
by nkassis on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:09AM
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Hehe, yeah I was just reading a magazine this morning talking about it's the next big material in cycling for everything from strengthening carbon fiber parts to conduct electricity to replace cables used for shifting/brakes to hearth rate monitoring clothing etc...
Seems like the wonder material.
Re:IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
by valarauca1 on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:41AM
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Carbon sucks in chips.
C has a 5.5eV band gap while Si has a 1.1 and Ge has a 0.67
Whats bandgap? The energy difference between a conductor/insulator in a semi-conductor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bandgap_in_semiconductor....
The only real reason to switch to carbon chips is noise reduction at the 4nm node (if we ever go that far, we're getting into Long X-Rays at that point for lithography).
Also 4nm node will only be ~16-18 carbon atoms wide.