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Originally Posted by gamefreak94
I've heard that Intel will soon do away with silicon chips altogether, they have a higher heat output and their transistor size is limited (don't get me wrong its still hellishly small, in the micro-meters) as compared to a new substance called graphene but maybe this isn't what they are experimenting with, it could be another material.
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Your getting it a little wrong here, it's not the silicon that they are replacing (silicon is the base material, not the transistor material)
The current limit in the technology for existing transistor material is 32nm which involves Ultraviolet processing that was invented by IBM (the nm means Nano Meters, much smaller than Micro Meters)
The smallest that Intel can make them is 45nm, the next material has been decided to be carbon nanotubes which should go below 10nm (at which we may start facing issues with Quantum Mechanics)
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