Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster

Fastest-ever logic gates could make computers a million times faster.
Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks of computers, and researchers at the University of Rochester have now developed the fastest ones ever created. By zapping graphene and gold with laser pulses, the new logic gates are a million times faster than those in existing computers,…

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Was getting excited then saw this :lol:

“It will probably be a very long time before this technique can be used in a computer chip, but at least we now know that lightwave electronics is practically possible,” said Tobias Boolakee, lead researcher on the study.

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Yeah this is the whole light-instead-of-electrical-circuits thing that’s always been 5 years away for like 30 years now, it’s worse than fusion, lol.

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