Engineers Build Computer Using Carbon Nanotube Technology - Polidicks

[url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130925132314.htm[/url] [IMG]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/09/130925132314.jpg?1380133392[/IMG] [QUOTE][B]A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while using less energy, than those made from silicon chips[/B] This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising material. "People have been talking about a new era of carbon nanotube electronics moving beyond silicon," said Mitra, an electrical engineer and computer scientist and Chambers Faculty Scholar of Engineering. "But there have been few demonstrations of complete digital systems using this exciting technology. Here is the proof." Experts say the Stanford achievement will galvanize efforts to find successors to silicon chips, which could soon encounter physical limits that might prevent them from delivering smaller, faster, cheaper electronic devices. "Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have long been considered as a potential successor to the silicon transistor," said Professor Jan Rabaey, a world expert on electronic circuits and systems at UC Berkeley. But until now it hasn't been clear that CNTs could fulfill those expectations. "There is no question that this will get the attention of researchers in the semiconductor community and entice them to explore how this technology can lead to smaller, more energy-efficient processors in the next decade," Rabaey said. Mihail Roco, senior advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, called the Stanford work "an important, scientific breakthrough."[/QUOTE] The full article is really long!

[quote]Then they pumped the semiconductor circuit full of electricity. All of that electricity concentrated in the metallic nanotubes, which grew so hot that they burned up and literally vaporized into tiny puffs of carbon dioxide. This [b]sophisticated[/b] technique was able to eliminate virtually all of the metallic CNTs in the circuit at once.[/quote] 'sophisticated' :v:

Im gonna give it like 2-3 years and I will be able to buy a 12gb ram laptop with a fast clock speed for like $400, computer technology seems like the only thing that makes sense to me because everything else seems to be getting shittier and more expensive.

[QUOTE=Madtoker;42308083]Im gonna give it like 2-3 years and I will be able to buy a 12gb ram laptop with a fast clock speed for like $400, computer technology seems like the only thing that makes sense to me because everything else seems to be getting shittier and more expensive.[/QUOTE] lol, you can do that now. it means battery life and performance will be a hell of alot better.

yet another problem solved by carbon nanotubes. they're like superheroes.

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;42308804']lol, you can do that now. it means battery life and performance will be a hell of alot better.[/QUOTE] $300, not four, but hell yeah. SCIENCE! etc. All we need now is a way to not die when/if anything containing the tubes breaks.

[QUOTE=JXZ;42310023]yet another problem solved by carbon nanotubes. they're like superheroes.[/QUOTE] Except with added cancer when you breath them in.

[QUOTE=Hiruty;42311641]Except with added cancer when you breath them in.[/QUOTE] Then get a prostethic lung, made of carbon nanotubes

Im thinking of how different life was back in 2003 compared to life in 2013. Imagine 2023. DAMN!

[QUOTE=luverofJ!93;42313121]Im thinking of how different life was back in 2003 compared to life in 2013. Imagine 2023. DAMN![/QUOTE] I would -LOVE- to see a comparison between like 2000/2003 -> 2010/2013.