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China Just Made the World's Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon
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this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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Not viable because bismuth is radioactive. We're not moving away from silicon anytime soon, I mean we've heard of the hype stories about gallium nitride and carbon nanotube transistors every few months now for nearly a decade, yet almost everything still uses silicon.
I mean, I work with transistors and gallium nitride transistors are actually a thing. Like you can just buy them yourself. I've looked through a few examples and they seem pretty decent. Certainly there are much fewer of them than the silicon stuff, but I imagine it's a new technology, so that makes sense.
The hyperlink directs to "nl.farnell.com/en-NL"...
Are you Dutch too? What a coincidence, haha.
No, I'm an immigrant.
Wait, you're Dutch? We might actually be going to the same uni if you are studying electrical engineering 😳