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Yes, but even graphene won't allow us to shrink transistors anymore, and this is what all these "end of Moore's Law" articles are really talking about. >"Moore
by devx 13y ago
Yes, but even graphene won't allow us to shrink transistors anymore, and this is what all these "end of Moore's Law" articles are really talking about.
>"Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years."
So that won't be possible anymore, even if we switch to graphene. But if we can actually make graphene chips that allow us to increase the clock speed every year from 5 Ghz, then 7 Ghz, then 10 Ghz, and so on up to 200 Ghz or whatever, then that can be a "solution" for continuing to double performance every couple of years or so.
But if graphene actually has that sort of potential and is not just all hype right now, then maybe that can hold us until 2030-2040, and hopefully by then we'll know how to make quantum computers that can surpass those computers in "general" performance, and can also be used to easily build "apps" on top of them.