Carbon nanotube computer

Carbon nanotube computer refers to a computer built entirely using carbon nanotubes (CNT) based transistors.[1][2] Researchers from Stanford University said that they had successfully built a carbon nanotube computer and their research paper published on 25 September 2013 in the journal Nature.[3] They named their first carbon nanotube computer Cedric.[4] It has a one-bit processor containing just 178 transistors.[5]

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In 2019, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the 16-bit processor called RV16X-NANO. With 14 000 transistors (compared to only hundreds in the first CNT computer made in 2013) it is the largest computer chip yet to be made from carbon nanotubes. It was able to execute a "Hello, World!" program with a message: “Hello, world! I am RV16XNano, made from CNTs”.[6]It is based on the RISC-V instruction set and runs standard 32-bit instructions on 16-bit data and addresses.[7][8]

References
  1. Shulaker, Max M.; Hills, Gage; Patil, Nishant; Wei, Hai; Chen, Hong-Yu; Wong, H.-S. Philip; Mitra, Subhasish (25 September 2013). "Carbon nanotube computer". Nature. 501 (7468): 526–530. doi:10.1038/nature12502. PMID 24067711.
  2. "First computer made of carbon nanotubes is unveiled". BBC. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  3. "Researchers Build a Working Carbon Nanotube Computer". NY Times. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  4. "Scientists create first carbon nanotube computer". Washingtonpost. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  5. "First Computer Made From Carbon Nanotubes Debuts". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  6. Gibney, Elizabeth (28 August 2019). "Biggest carbon-nanotube chip yet says 'Hello, World!'". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02576-7.
  7. Shulaker, Max M.; Chandrakasan, Anantha; Murphy, Denis; Stein, Yosi; Amer, Aya; Kanhaiya, Pritpal; Srimani, Tathagata; Bishop, Mindy D.; Fuller, Samuel; Wright, Andrew; Lau, Christian; Hills, Gage (August 2019). "Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors". Nature. 572 (7771): 595–602. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1493-8. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31462796.
  8. "A Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor Mature Enough to Say Hello". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 19 September 2019.


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