Earlier this month, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta published a paper in Nature. The study discusses producing epigraphene from silicon carbide (SiC). Semiconducting...
The amount of transitors in integrated circuits has been doubling every two years for ~ 50 years so there would be a lot of similar headlines. People thought that would stop in 2022 but this might change that
(People have also been speculating about it for awhile but this is it actually functioning)
They'll still find a way to make every game barely run and they'll still find a way to make windows really slow even if we have 300Thz cpus. And your old 5.9ghz threadripper will be considered too shitty to be used for anything.
Sounds pretty cool, but I can't tell from the article what they actually did to make it semiconductive. They heat it up and then heat it up again- that makes it a semiconductor? They drive off the doping agent- somehow that's desireable? IIRC silicon chemistries require doping agents like arsenic to produce the semiconductor effect. I don't get it.
And of course, the actual paper is fucking paywalled.