Nowadays it’s not that hard to produce it, it is just a layer of carbon atoms, you don’t need any kind of special resources. This study developed a way to make it with $20 worth of equipment. The hard part is to make it perform like a semiconductor to make it feasible for processing.
Articles I've seen repeatedly over the last 30 years:
Graphene is going to change everything!
China's economy is about to collapse!
Nuclear fusion reactors are almost there!
Remind me in another 30 years
Didn’t I read this story like 10 years ago?
That was probably IBM's graphene semiconductor which they never actually got working. I don't know enough to know how this is different, though.
Let’s hope this one pays off.
That was my first thought! I swear I’ve been reading about how graphene was going to change everything for the last 20 years…
I was thinking the same thing. It could have been the carbon nanotube CPU from ~~MIT in 2019~~ Stanford in 2013.
Always a "could"
And most graphene is in China. So much that they produce 70% of the worlds graphene
Nowadays it’s not that hard to produce it, it is just a layer of carbon atoms, you don’t need any kind of special resources. This study developed a way to make it with $20 worth of equipment. The hard part is to make it perform like a semiconductor to make it feasible for processing.
Ah it must be Monday
Articles I've seen repeatedly over the last 30 years: Graphene is going to change everything! China's economy is about to collapse! Nuclear fusion reactors are almost there! Remind me in another 30 years
AI will take away X jobs!
Haha forgot about that one And Blockchain will revolutionise X businesses!
What about heat and power consumption?
It looks cracked…
It’s just a chip I’ll see myself out
You’re probably looking at wire bonds
so they _cracked_ it?
It is just a one atom carbon layer on a silicone crystal. What you see is wires
it was meant as a pun