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They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).
The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!
Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.
A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.
inb4 Trump claims the chinese are putting mind control chips in American shampoo
Nah. It’ll be to make them transgendered.
Would using bismuth in chip production affect the price of medicaments?
quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.
Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.
Don’t forget Selenium is also essential to defeat alien organisms!
And it’s Wednesday, so it’s Bismuth Time
Am I stupid or is a transistor a very different thing from a chip? Like, a chip has lots of transistors on it, but comparing them is still rather non-sensical…?
it’s more accurate to say that the transistors are etched from (or carved out of) the chip than saying that there are transistors on the chip and the size & number are indicators of the technology that has been invented, manufactured, and employed to create them.
every level that we scale to represents the bleeding edge of real world scientific capability for a company and a country and our capitalist society makes these endeavors profitable at the cost of our privacy, security, health and environment.
Again… I didn’t even read the article but “[redacted to remove bias] University researchers have developed [better] than leading [whatever].” is definitely interesting yet also pointless. Of course research is important, even fundamental, to the production process… but it’s not a fair comparison because production, at scale, and economically reliable requires a LOT more constraints!
So the research, regardless of the source, is welcomed but comparing to production rather than comparing to other research labs pushing limits on the same dimensions is not useful.
PS: for my starting “Again” see my post history.
Edit : AFAICT “outperforms the most advanced commercial chips from […] Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre.” IMEC doesn’t do commercial chips, just research.
