IBM Builds First Graphene Integrated Circuit 77
AffidavitDonda writes "IBM researchers have built the first integrated circuit (IC) based on a graphene transistor. The circuit, built on a wafer of silicon carbide, consists of field-effect transistors made of graphene. The IC also includes metallic structures, such as on-chip inductors and the transistors' sources and drains. The circuit the team built is a broadband radio-frequency mixer, a fundamental component of radios that processes signals by finding the difference between two high-frequency wavelengths."
This is an extremely important accomplishment. (Score:2, Funny)
I don't think that the article goes into enough detail about just how important this accomplishment is. Frankly, this is our only hope going forward. With so much slow software written in languages like Ruby and JavaScript becoming popular, it will again fall back to the hardware guys to really make things fast again. This will probably be the way they'll do it!
Re:This is an extremely important accomplishment. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's a diode! (Score:2, Funny)
all of these are used every day inside things you probably have in your pocket or purse, from cellphones to car stereos, television receivers to communications satellites.
Lesse:
1) cellphone: yup!
2) car stereo: well, I don't carry a purse, but if I did, I guess so.
3) television receiver: yup, though an interesting one would probably warrant a purse in place of a pocket.
4) communications satellite: erm, here's where I run into the problem of one fitting in my pocket, or a purse.
So, is this "suggest three plausible things and the forth implausible one will be blindly accepted as well" day?