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Biggest carbon-nanotube chip yet says ‘Hello, World!’

Researchers have built a 16-bit computer processor from the material.
  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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Scientists have created the largest computer chip yet to be made from carbon nanotubes: rolled up sheets of atom-thick graphene that conduct electricity at super-fast speeds.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02576-7

Read the related News & Views article: ‘Nanotube computer scaled up’

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  1. Shulaker, M. M. et al. Nature 501, 526–530 (2013).

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  2. Hills, G. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1493-8 (2019).

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