IBM Pushes Moore’s Law Limits With Carbon Nanotube Transistors
November 5, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Silicon-based chip etching technologies are going to reach the lower limits of the atomic scale at some point, and chip equipment and chip designers are all looking out ahead into the future to try to come up with new technologies that will extend or replace current silicon-based chips so out electronics will get faster, more capacious, and less expensive over time, tracking with Moore’s Law. Scientists working at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York, offer one possible tweak to current technology, having come up with a technique that will create chips based on carbon nanotubes, which offer better performance |