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Graphene ‘Nano-Origami’ Could Take Us Past the End of Moore’s Law

by squid_demon on 3/3/21, 6:40 AM with 21 comments

• by drannex on 3/3/21, 8:02 AM

  As with anything that has to do with Graphene: Fantastic, happy to hear, but let's see how it goes with more testing and if it's manufacturable. I haven't seen a successful long-term application yet and they've been talking about graphene for twenty years.

  I'm sure great things are happening in the field, and many wonderful ideas and discoveries have been made — but statements such as "take us past Moores law" requires manufacturing, and I haven't seen anything to say that this is possible albeit I am ever hopeful for the day that it is.

• by mpweiher on 3/3/21, 7:42 PM

  Isn't the more tangible problem the end of Dennard scaling?

  As in: Moore's law is still giving you more transistors, but you can't actually turn them all on, and they aren't getting faster, so no free lunch.

  (Which of course is why the Apple M1 is so significantly ahead, at least of Intel)

• by karmakaze on 3/3/21, 3:02 PM

  I'm glad it's only about 1000x faster, if it were millions or billions of times faster it could be disruptive in a world destabilizing way.

• by cutler on 3/3/21, 3:04 PM

  The great Graphene Promise recycled.