Stanford engineers have produced a silicon chip built on carbon nanotube wires that conduct digital information at the speed of commercial computers.
"This is the first time anyone has been able to show digital signals going through nanotubes at 1 gigahertz [a billion times a second]," Stanford professor of electrical engineering H.-S. Philip Wong said in a statement "There had been a lot of expectations that nanotubes could do this, but no experimental proof so far."
I know, I know, my old, decrepit work computer is already chugging along at 3.2Ghz and I still can't stand it. So what's the big deal?
Well, for starters, they're really, really black.
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