IBM: Graphene as it is won't replace silicon in CPUs

Ben Hardwidge @ bit-tech.net

A single graphene sheet measures just one atom-thick, potentially paving the way tiny transistors.

IBM has revealed that graphene can't yet fully replace silicon inside CPUs, as a graphene transistor can't actually be completely switched off.

In an interview for a forthcoming Custom PC feature about chip-building materials, Yu-Ming Lin from IBM Research - Nanometer Scale Science and Technology told us that 'graphene as it is will not replace the role of silicon in the digital computing regime.'

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