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- MatzahMan, on 04/25/2009, -1/+12Resistance is futile.
- anexanhume, on 04/25/2009, -0/+10Improved performance only tells half the story. They improved the performance of n-type organic transistors. This is significant because, like computer chips (whose p-type devices are habitually slower), use both n-type and p-type logic in complementary configurations to achieve a balance of low power and good performance. This allows organic semiconductors to use that same balance for LSI and VLSI circuits.
- brad3378, on 04/25/2009, -0/+6Going against the current sometimes hertz.
- silvershadow21, on 04/25/2009, -0/+6I see watt you did there.
- iritegood, on 04/25/2009, -0/+5lolwut
- lowfalls, on 04/25/2009, -1/+4Cylons here we come!
- Defiant001, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3By your command
- richirwin, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3Voyager!
- Sapulator, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3call me biased, but you seem a little saturated to me.
- mich181189, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2yes, we really need to make the switch back to jokes that are a little less saturated, thus amplifying the humour...
- shujin, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2don't know what any of this means, but dugg anyway
- inactive, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2or gate
- bongo, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2Actually, n-type and p-type transistors are used in a complementary fashion because n-type transistors pass good "low" voltages and p-type transistors pass good "high" voltages. When used together, you can fully pass any voltage.
For example, if you made a circuit only using nmos transistors, you couldn't pass a full Vdd, it would be almost a volt less. - anexanhume, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2That's completely relative to your supply, and there are advantages to using only nmos because it's faster, it just eats more logic.
- bincoder, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2But for how long?
Organics have the most irritating habit of failing much too quickly, like dinosaur meat rotting in the sun or OLEDs, tomato sauce, vitamins, gasoline or... <insert anything organic here>
Speed is useless if it doesn't last for at least 4,000 years under continuous use like a plain olde fashioned silicon transistor who never sees more than 1/2 its rated power capacity.
If you want speedy computation, just take several slow, crappy microprocessors (or a few thousand of them) and do a clustering thingy. Do that and things like the speed of an electron triggering 'A' switch become meaningless. - copypastry, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Okay so there this stuff, nanotubes, the pigment-based memory, racetrack memory, plasmonic lens lithography...
When do we find out what format works the best and start making actual products? - subtrafusel, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1lolumad?
- aTroll, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1This is it guys. This is the start of living compiters. Skynet will come in due time...
- MatzahMan, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1why don't you read the article first and find out?
- fury420, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1traditionally that takes 5-10 years after the initial research breakthrough is published in scientific journals
- theskillwithin, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Organic: With Carbon???
- anexanhume, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Nanotubes are a good 15 years off.
- Sapulator, on 04/26/2009, -0/+1Feed back to me your input mich. what do you have to Gain from this?
- ViscidGobs, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1I got an organic transistor with improved performance, if you know what I mean. Thanks Viagra.
- rompom7, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1"Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
- bongo, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Okay, I'm not about to start discussing alternative schemes to cmos here. ;) But pmos are only slower than nmos if they are the same size. Just make 'em wider and they'll be about as fast (although at the cost of extra capacitance).
- DaNuKaSAN, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1EECS...ftw
- BoneheadFarker, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Sure we can do the cluster thing, if we don't mind it taking up a large warehouse and using enough electricity to power a small city. But personally I'd like something that powerful in something the size of a standard PC case. I really don't care how they do it or whether it will last for millennia, as long as it can answer more problems in it's lifetime then current supercomputers can.
- sludgecity, on 04/25/2009, -1/+0all Terran life is carbon-based ;)
this could prove quite useful for Cylons and Terminators - Arsenard, on 04/24/2009, -11/+2So who cares? Faster is better only because programmers today are barely able to get-the-job done much less make it efficient and quick to execute! So transistors are made from the scabs from a syphilitic camel's ass; I ask you, can it stay ahead of the programmer's inefficient methods?? If so, then good!
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