Original press release
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/24/metal-wires-of-carbon-complete-toolbox-for-carbon-based-computers/
Intel, AMD, TSMC, etc., don't have anything to worry about yet. It's a step in the process of trying to figure out what graphene and related materials are practically good for.
(Graphene is fast, but has no "energy gap" so you can't turn off transistors made from it, so the power dissipation from a real circuit of hundreds of millions or billions of them would be huge. You can do tricks to make graphene have a bandgap (like silicon and traditional semiconductors), but it's usually not robust because graphene is practically inert (which is why it exists in the first place).)
The dichagenogides may be more practical, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2013/tc/c3tc00710c?casa_token=WLPTGGk32KUAAAAA:pYyxz2zaRRRSLdlpKfTWA9FlWatYJbvUOirwPEi3kOwivIvQHg0Yxn1cgGejwwE5H1uIKem2i7H_yRI
Cheers,
Scott.
Intel, AMD, TSMC, etc., don't have anything to worry about yet. It's a step in the process of trying to figure out what graphene and related materials are practically good for.
(Graphene is fast, but has no "energy gap" so you can't turn off transistors made from it, so the power dissipation from a real circuit of hundreds of millions or billions of them would be huge. You can do tricks to make graphene have a bandgap (like silicon and traditional semiconductors), but it's usually not robust because graphene is practically inert (which is why it exists in the first place).)
The dichagenogides may be more practical, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2013/tc/c3tc00710c?casa_token=WLPTGGk32KUAAAAA:pYyxz2zaRRRSLdlpKfTWA9FlWatYJbvUOirwPEi3kOwivIvQHg0Yxn1cgGejwwE5H1uIKem2i7H_yRI
Cheers,
Scott.