MIT graphene breakthrough could make chips a million times faster
'Optical boom' could have huge impact for production of processors
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that graphene sheets of atom-thick carbon could be used to make chips up to a million times faster. The researchers worked out...
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