Samsung Claims Breakthrough In Graphene Chip Design 88
jfruh (300774) writes "Graphene, a carbon-based crystalline lattice that is extremely strong, lightweight, and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat, is coveted as a potential base for semiconductor chip design, and Samsung, working with the Sungkyungkwan University School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, has claimed a big jump towards that goal. With IBM also making progress in this realm, the days of silicon could actually be numbered."
Re:What a differnec e a couple of year can make. (Score:4, Informative)
SIgh. The article you link, from 2011, says "yet"
Its all about creating a band gap, with with silcon doping*.
However, their is research in this area.
http://www-als.lbl.gov/index.p... [lbl.gov]
*yeah yeah, but people get the idea.