That's not a computer chip, that's a single transistor.
There are better articles on this out there. That's an SiGe based transistor they are playing with. Very expensive to make, but you will find some things out there already using SiGe parts (mostly in Fiber gear that needs to do ridiculous line rates).
More importantly, computer chips aren't held back by raw transistor speed, these days. We're getting to the point where the electrons travelling at local-light-speed through the medium are the bottleneck.
It's also REALLY power hungry relative to straight Si transistors.
Between expense, lack of density, and power requirements, SiGe is a non-starter except in very limited applications if someone doesn't find a way to solve those problems.
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Date: 2006-06-21 06:09 pm (UTC)Want!
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Date: 2006-06-21 06:09 pm (UTC)There are better articles on this out there. That's an SiGe based transistor they are playing with. Very expensive to make, but you will find some things out there already using SiGe parts (mostly in Fiber gear that needs to do ridiculous line rates).
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Date: 2006-06-22 01:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-21 06:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-21 06:25 pm (UTC)But it can go from 1 to 0 five hundred billion times a second.
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Date: 2006-06-21 06:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-21 06:54 pm (UTC)Between expense, lack of density, and power requirements, SiGe is a non-starter except in very limited applications if someone doesn't find a way to solve those problems.
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Date: 2006-06-21 07:51 pm (UTC)Watch for it.