IBM Self Assembly Technology Creates Airgap Microprocessors

[DarkNemesis25]

Can someone explain to me why im hearing so much about all of IBMs breakthroughs in technology but not seeing any of their products at a consumer grade? Are they partenered with intel to bring this technology to retail? Or is ibm mainly on their own level only developing technology for industries and servers etc..

[wyrwich]

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons" - Popular Mechanics, 1949

[TheSolarmike]

Air conducts heat by thermo kinetic collisions. There is no conductive heat loss is a vacuum , only radiant energy can traverse a vacuum. Smart

[maxestuardo]

aaaaaahhhhh?

[RussellTuan]

As I know air is batter than vaccume as a insulator,why use vaccume instead of air or others? dont answer me because of HF interference.

[DarkKnight388]

Uhm, how can air be a better insulator than vaccuum?

[RussellTuan]

@DarkKnight388 High voltage can jump through gap in vacuum then in air,like vacuum tube for example.

[girsega]

i think they find a vaccume as a better insulator because if you think about it there isnt anything to heat up like your air has molicules that will become heated as it runs while the vaccum the heat has to "jump" to the adjacent object

[BeanangelTreon]

clever approach to capacitance modulation

[ycalm]

I am very excited to see this on youtube. I have a research assistantship in a lab at UMASS that works specifically on the PS-PMMA diblock copolymer... very exciting indeed