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CardJoe · 21st Dec 2007, 12:16

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/12...lace_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.

UncertainGod · 21st Dec 2007, 12:32

Doesn't seem scalable to me.

DeXtmL · 21st Dec 2007, 12:37

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.

Icy EyeG · 21st Dec 2007, 13:50

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...

DXR_13KE · 21st Dec 2007, 19:49

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

Robotrix · 21st Dec 2007, 23:45

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.

Robotrix · 22nd Dec 2007, 00:37

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Originally Posted by Robotrix

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.

ou7blaze · 23rd Dec 2007, 06:29

The New Intel Graphite CPU

"Powered by the technology that brought you pencils!"

Amon · 24th Dec 2007, 03:23

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

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Robotrix Minimodder Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 41	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. Last edited by Robotrix; 22nd Dec 2007 at 00:40.

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