Computers of the future will be smaller, faster, and more efficient. Although this has been the case with personal microcomputers for so long, the chapter on tiny computers has really begun. Computing carbon nanotubes have entered the generation since the Silicon Age. A team of scientists at Stanford University in the United States recently succeeded in creating the world’s first carbon nanotube-based computer, the Cedric. Revealed Has done.

ঐ According to the engineering team, the device uses a new type of transistor made of carbon nanotube instead of a transistor made of silicon. And this computer, invented by Stanford’s research team, is the most complex device (so far) dependent on carbon nanotubes.

The end of the Silicon Age seems to have come

Carbon nanotubes or ‘CNT’ are microscopic cylinders made from sheets made of carbon atoms. Each carbon nanotube is only 1 nanometer and the chip made from them has a minimum thickness of 9 nanometers. On the other hand, the state-of-the-art silicon chip is 22 nanometers wide.

The nanometer is a unit of length in the metric system, which is equal to one billionth of a billionth of a meter (10).^–9 M.) Or one millionth of a millimeter.

The makers of Cedric, a computer based on carbon nanotubes, claim that it can do “infinite” work with enough memory. The configuration of the Cedric prototype initially built,

• 1 bit processor
• 1 kHz speed
• 16 transistors, each containing 10-200 nanotubes
• 2 billion carbon atoms
• Complete multitasking and Turing skills

In computing terms, “Turing Complete” means that the device in question is capable of solving any computational problem.

Cedric runs on a simple operating system that can perform multitasking switching, counting and number sorting. Cedric has been able to overcome the limitations of carbon-based computers in the past – meaning it can always give the right answer.

There is good news for microchip makers like Intel, Samsung etc. This is because the lab facilities needed to make carbon nanotubes are compatible with existing silicon chips, so there will be no need for large new investments. For 40 years we have been imagining the end of the Silicon Age, it seems to have come!