News Forget light, carbon is the new silicon

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12/21/carbon_to_replace_silicon/1

Yes, you guessed it: another possible future processor technology. This time it's the stuff in pencils rather than the stuff that comes out of torches that'll save us all.

 

Doesn't seem scalable to me.

 

Ya, i have see this news yesterday on another site.
Definitely it's a exciting technology, but all i see is that the carbon layer is just a tech lies in the way of transit our currently silicon base chip to future light based one. exactly, it's a interim chip manufacture technology and cannot replace the light driven chip.

So, i don't think it's time for us to forget the light.

 

Call me crazy, but it would be nice that when this technology becomes mainstream, the chip factories could capture the carbon within the carbon dioxide to use as a raw material...

Maybe, just maybe I'm being too crazy...

 

and considering that they are stamping carbon, this could make chips faster to make and cheaper.....

 

I think optic technology is probably too much of a radical change from what we have today with silicon chips. So from what I know, this carbon solution (by this I mean solution to a problem, not the scientific term) sounds like a nice transition phase to go in between, until engineers finally get the grip of making a CPU out of optics.

 

The New Intel Graphite CPU

"Powered by the technology that brought you pencils!"

 

This stuff isn't going to shatter to smithereens when dropped, will it?