Carbon Nanotubes and
Computing
The limit of which silicon
transistors dies can be separated in a processor
is fast approaching. As the
distance between these dies become a mere 10nm next year, many have wonder how
much smaller the silicon dies can be shrunk before the limit is reached and
will that be the end of Moore’s law?
Possibly
not, carbon nanotubes, a one-sheet thin layer of carbon rolled into a tube has
long been touted as a substitute. However, until recently they were very hard
to fiddle with due to the manufacturing process needed to harvest these carbon
nanotubes. IBM has successfully created transistors of carbon nanotubes
recently, on a similar scale to modern processors at 9nm and they claim that
overtime the nanotube dies may shrink to as small as 1.8nm. If IBM is able to successfully
purify and manufacture in mass quantity the carbon nanotubes, the replacement
of Silicon will be found and our computer and technology will become even quicker
than it is now.
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