They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).
The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!
Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.
A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.
quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.
Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.
Silicon is like $3/kg (and that’s the higher price, it’s cheaper outside the USA). I’m not sure if we could sustain the same level of manufacturing using bismuth without side effects. One of the best things about silicon is that it’s the second most abundant element of Earth… I don’t think the “line must go up” attitude around pushing for Moore’s law is a worthy effort. I’d rather we pushed for software to be more efficient instead of pushing software complexity under layers of crust, I don’t feel my PC is faster than it was 10 years ago, despite its Hz having doubled.
I could understand using this for specialized applications, but I’m not convinced it should be something that should be made as widespread as silicon tech, so I don’t think this should really be seen as a replacement for it.
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They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).
The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!
Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.
A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.
inb4 Trump claims the chinese are putting mind control chips in American shampoo
Nah. It’ll be to make them transgendered.
Would using bismuth in chip production affect the price of medicaments?
quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.
Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.
Silicon is like $3/kg (and that’s the higher price, it’s cheaper outside the USA). I’m not sure if we could sustain the same level of manufacturing using bismuth without side effects. One of the best things about silicon is that it’s the second most abundant element of Earth… I don’t think the “line must go up” attitude around pushing for Moore’s law is a worthy effort. I’d rather we pushed for software to be more efficient instead of pushing software complexity under layers of crust, I don’t feel my PC is faster than it was 10 years ago, despite its Hz having doubled.
I could understand using this for specialized applications, but I’m not convinced it should be something that should be made as widespread as silicon tech, so I don’t think this should really be seen as a replacement for it.
Don’t forget Selenium is also essential to defeat alien organisms!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEavABwwqg
And it’s Wednesday, so it’s Bismuth Time