IBM Eyes New Technique to Make Carbon Nanotube-Based Chips; Dario Gil Comments

Scientists at IBM Research have developed a new process that could help advance the adoption of carbon nanotubes as a semiconductor material used to produce computer chips and other devices.

IBM said Thursday the new process works to scale down transistor contacts to less than 10 nanometers without affecting the performance of carbon nanotubes.

“As silicon technology nears its physical limits, new materials, devices and circuit architectures must be ready to deliver the advanced technologies that will be required by the cognitive computing era,” said Dario Gil, vice president of science and technology at IBM Research.

“These chip innovations are necessary to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing, Internet of Things and big data systems.”