MIT develops 16-bit processor based on carbon nanotubes
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02576-7
Some researchers hope to use carbon nanotubes in future computers because they conduct electricity faster and more efficiently than silicon does. Until now, engineers have increased the power and speed of ordinary silicon computer processors by shrinking the switches known as transistors, but these are reaching a fundamental limit.
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In theory, a CNT processor could be ten times more efficient than a silicon one by running around three times faster and using about one-third of the energy, says Max Shulaker, the MIT physicist who led the work.