Friday, March 27th 2009
MIT Graphene Chip Could Reach 1,000 Gigahertz
MIT researchers claim that graphene, an experimental material first identified in 2004, may be able to boost the clock speed of computer chips into the 500-GHz to 1,000-GHz range.
The scientists at MIT EECS have constructed an experimental graphene chip capable of multiplying electrical signal frequencies. While frequency multiplication technology is used in current electronics, these systems generate noisy signals and require significant filtering and power, according to the MIT news service. The graphene chip uses only a single transistor and its output is clean, requiring no filtering.
The findings will be discussed in a paper in the May issue of Electron Device Letters. They were also described last week at the American Physical Society meeting by Tomas Palacios, assistant professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
The scientists at MIT EECS have constructed an experimental graphene chip capable of multiplying electrical signal frequencies. While frequency multiplication technology is used in current electronics, these systems generate noisy signals and require significant filtering and power, according to the MIT news service. The graphene chip uses only a single transistor and its output is clean, requiring no filtering.
The findings will be discussed in a paper in the May issue of Electron Device Letters. They were also described last week at the American Physical Society meeting by Tomas Palacios, assistant professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
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Companies like Red Bull and Mountain Dew should sponser these guys, as well as Intel/AMD so they can pump out this world changing chip.
512Core 1Thz CPU with a
80.000core GPU with 1TB GDDR12 and
2TB DDR7 RAM and
512TB SSD with SATA9
and 2 pieces from an 50Coll OLED display with touchscreen of course for about
600 or 800Euros
so a solid mid range gamer pc in 2035
(with an artificial cyber pall)
:D:D:D:D
One day, possession of an non-cloud computer will be a crime.
and sadly enought the way technology evolves i wouldnt put it past this, were due for a huge jump in something soon! hopefully
CPUs these days, even your top of the line ones don't cost much to produce, the more expensive you go, the more profit intel/AMD makes basically. However I reckon we cant go lower than 10nm. Good thing about grapehene though, if they use graphene for the package as well we can officially say bye bye to IHSes as this stuff is damn hard (and unlappable :P).
The reason why graphene can run at such insane frequencies is because of the extremely strong chemical bonds, well the strongest, making it also the strongest material. If we can get 100% pure graphene, or 99.9%, the only way we'd improve is through architectural changes.
Once making this stuff gets cheap, we'll have computers which will probably have all the phases pretty much intergrated into the CPUs themselves.
So the hurdle right now is cost, and actually making the graphene transistors-they're barely able to yet, and keeping everything pure.