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If I had any money to invest in a small, seemingly innocuous company, this would be it.
These guys are developing (and have successfully produced) electronics grade single crystal diamond wafers. Let me say that again, DIAMOND wafers. Here's the process:
They take a diamond shard, about the size of a fingernail clipping, and place is in a sealed chamber. With a combination of pressure, chemical baths, and heat, they are able to fuse new carbon crystals onto the existing shard. The new crystals are uniform in pattern, creating an ideal single crystal wafer. They are currently perfecting the boron injection process so that the wafers will be able to carry a charge, not unlike the way silicon wafers do.
So the major story is within a few years, printing circuit boards on a diamond wafer will not only be plausible, but actually happening. Instead of silicon, diamond circuit boards could be run unimaginably hot, processors could be clocked into the terahertz, RAM could run on the same clock cycles as the processor, etc.
Look for these cats in the news. When their process is perfected and cheap, Intel has expressed interest in purchasing industry standard sized wafers to print chips with. Prepare for a quantum shift in the way computers are built, and the way they perform.
If I had any money to invest in a small, seemingly innocuous company, this would be it.
These guys are developing (and have successfully produced) electronics grade single crystal diamond wafers. Let me say that again, DIAMOND wafers. Here's the process:
They take a diamond shard, about the size of a fingernail clipping, and place is in a sealed chamber. With a combination of pressure, chemical baths, and heat, they are able to fuse new carbon crystals onto the existing shard. The new crystals are uniform in pattern, creating an ideal single crystal wafer. They are currently perfecting the boron injection process so that the wafers will be able to carry a charge, not unlike the way silicon wafers do.
So the major story is within a few years, printing circuit boards on a diamond wafer will not only be plausible, but actually happening. Instead of silicon, diamond circuit boards could be run unimaginably hot, processors could be clocked into the terahertz, RAM could run on the same clock cycles as the processor, etc.
Look for these cats in the news. When their process is perfected and cheap, Intel has expressed interest in purchasing industry standard sized wafers to print chips with. Prepare for a quantum shift in the way computers are built, and the way they perform.