IBM To Stop Using Silicon

[agent_x007]

I thought Graphene (LINK), was the future or ICs - since it's flat, it can be "stacked" like memory

As for Milion/Bilion thing...
Mega, Giga, Tera is easier/more universal, to use (still, not in all circumstances )

+ In Poland (where I live) we use Milion's ("Mega"), Miliard's ("Giga"), Bilion's ("Tera"), Biliard's ("Peta"), etc.
Here's source from Wikipedia about that - a "Long/Short scale" thing : LINK

 

[Wraith]

Nanophotonics is exciting! also what about Molybdenum disulfide (similar to Graphene) only issue with Molybdenum is that it's around 10 years from being practical, carbon nanotubes could have the answer but my money at the moment is on Stacked 3D Tri-gate transistors that Intel are already using on 22nm fabs, triple the processing at a lower power draw.

The main real life issue with silicon is that once we hit sub 10nm the interference and signal leak becomes to great as you can't make 0.4nm gates any smaller or even shield them at such a microscopic scale. So I'll stick to my guns and say Stacked processing is the future, it's working a treat with Vnand.. I'll probably end up being wrong.