10 times silicon-based chip performance, the Chinese company to tackle graphene technology: is expected to break the monopoly

As Moore's law approaches the limit, current silicon-based semiconductor technology will soon hit it's limit, making it difficult to make anything below 1 nm, and graphene chips are the way to go, there are also a number of domestic companies formed alliances to tackle this technology, its performance of silicon-based chips up to 10 times.

Recently, at the (9th) China International Graphene Innovation Conference, a number of companies and institutions in China established the Graphene Copper Innovation Consortium, members include Zhengtai Group, Shanghai Cable Institute and Shanghai graphene industry technology functional platform.

The company hopes to develop graphene-based chips to replace traditional silicon-based ones, which are at least 10 times more powerful because of their higher Electron mobility than silicon-based materials, at the same time, the power consumption is also greatly reduced.

Graphene chips are being developed in several countries, and if mass-produced, that could break the monopoly.

But graphene chips are also extremely difficult, and the industry has been working on mass-production methods for decades, but none has been practical.

Graphene is a special material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. It is about 200 times stronger than steel, and its electrical and thermal conductivity is higher than that of copper. It weighs less than 1 mg per square metre.

It also has high conductivity and thermal conductivity, so it has great potential in heat dissipation, batteries and chips and other fields.

Back in 2010, IBM demonstrated graphene wafers with transistors capable of operating at a frequency of 100 ghz and, in theory, making chips of 500 ghz to 1,000 ghz.

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