though silicon remains one of the most efective
materials, as companies look to improve speed
and power consumption, silicon could soon be
a thing of the past. Indeed, the faster a transistor
can be switched, the higher the potential speed
of a processor, but the power that’s consumed
by an integrated circuit scales with speed as
well. However, the ‘hairy chip’ could serve as its
replacement, a carbon nanotube arranged in
a hexagonal pattern. These tubes are less than
two nanometers but can extend for microns
in length, allowing them to form diferent
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