Transistors with carbon nanotubes

Recently, we have already presented how our world will look like in 10 years. We mentioned the creation soon faster and less power-hungry computers, which will be based on transistors made ​​from carbon nanotubes.

IBM announced that it is working intensively on the development of this technology and provides that it should come to the market before the end of the decade. This is very important because it is fast approaching the magic limiting the possibility of silicon chips that operate at 5 nanometers.

In this process, it is necessary to use other materials, but in the hope of carbon nanotubes that are ideal for the development of processors. IBM is experimenting with the technology since the mid 90s, but still managed to create integrated circuits containing only 10,000 nanotube transistors.

Engineers want to use the popular silicon transistors to the rear, which will facilitate their use in existing systems. IBM assumes that the new processor consisting of billions of transistors based on carbon nanotubes is five times more effective than the same silicon chip, while significantly less energy devouring.

So Moore's Law, which suggests that computing power doubles every 24 months, does not lose its value, at least for the next decade.