http://www.physorg.com/news74944569.html

I can only wonder if and when this new technique will bear more fruit than the venerable silicon geranium, or whether it will smell as sweet.

Finally something more powerful than flower power!!

who's STC Microelectronics?

... and what the hell are transistors ?

Prof. Ashburn used to give the best lectures at uni Glad to see his research pays off too!

Wow, they took transistor speed to the HNL!

STC might stand for "Space Technology Center"
ut according to me it is more likely to be : "Superconductivity Technology Center (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "

source : acronymfinder.com

for transistor refer to wikpedia.org

There is a Texas based semiconductor company using this technology in conjunction with SiGe bases, and has been for ~6 years. Oh yeah, and it's patented!

I think that STC Microelcetronics is a slip of the typing, it shall be ST Mciroeletronics.

"they are currently monitoring how the fluorine behaves and looking at whether there are other materials that will also enable this diffusion. "

No they want to suppress not enable that diffusion. read your own article

This of course got over-sensationalized by the news media everywhere. I guess it is indeed a speed record of 110 GHz for "silicon bipolar" transistors. However CMOS transistors which are used in pretty much every consumer product today have had fT values of 140 GHz for a couple of years now. And just recently IBM demonstrated a "silicon germanium" transistor with fT values of 500 GHz.

So while this is good and dandy research, this is not something where we should expect doubling of Intel processing speeds all of a sudden (all CPUs use CMOS technology anyways)

Meanwhile back in the lab, the CPU chugs along at +000000.00205 THz. Chugga chugga chugga...