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Gallium could only produce microchips larger than silicon. What we need are diamond microchips which should outperform silicon chips by a factor of 23K and be a third smaller.



Intriguing, do you have any good references or recommended reading about this?



It seems we're still a long ways off from diamond semiconductors becoming mainstream. I wonder what the forcing function will end up being to dethrone silicon.


Moore's Law seems like a decent candidate.




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