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Atom-thick material runs rings around silicon


server: winbeta.org - 19.04.2008

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A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward.



Transistors one atom thick and ten atoms wide have been made by UK researchers. They were carved from graphene, predicted by some to one day oust silicon as the basis of future computing.



For 40 years computing has been dominated by a rule of thumb named Moore's law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip will double roughly every two years.



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