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Originally Posted by Brians256
Now, as for the carbon circuits... that 80GHz was not a full CPU. It was a set of test circuits. As far as I've read, researchers cannot yet make a design with that process that can support 100 million transistors yet. The next set of materials being really looked at for any near-future mass-production is Silicon-Germanium. Anything with carbon is at least 15 years out, not 10. It's not just knowing how to make something. It's also knowing how to make ten million of them at a profit, and that takes a significant infrastructure that includes a rather vast supply chain of material vendors, tool vendors, etc... Fun research, though.
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Even more fun if I can get on the reaserch team for my finnal in 4 years. About time. It could really depend, quite often this early on, its hard to tell. Who knows wot kinda huge breake throughs (or not) they could have. It can so easily vary between nethin from 10 to 30 years b4 the procs come out on he market for us. But I might get lucky n b given 1 2 test at home if I get on the team. A free processor at 80GHz. I think that will beat nethin on here for value for money, lol.