Nanotube chips
Published research
- What happened
MIT researchers reported in Nature a 16-bit microprocessor built from carbon nanotube transistors.
- Why it matters
By one estimate, a nanotube processor could run three times faster than today's chips on about a third of the energy.
Smithsonian Magazine, Aug 2019- How far from your life
Working prototype
Carbon nanotube transistors is on step 2 of 5. Still years away; many prototypes stall here.
- Source
“This week MIT researchers made a huge step in that direction: they created a new 16-bit microprocessor”Smithsonian Magazine, Aug 2019
The bigger picture
More on Nanotube chips
On step 2 of 5: Working prototype. Everything we track on it
- Pilot production
MIT and SkyWater Technology Foundry showed the first wafer of 3D chips combining carbon nanotube transistors and memory made in a commercial US foundry, under a DARPA program.
IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2019