Engineers at Purdue University and GlobalFoundries have gotten today's most advanced transistors to vibrate at frequencies that could make 5G phones and other gadgets smaller and more energy efficient. The feat could also improve CPU clocks, make wearable radars, and one day form the basis of a new kind of computing. They presented their results today at the IEEE International Solid-States Circuits Conference, in San Francisco.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/finfets-shimmy-to-5gs-frequencies
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:12AM (4 children)
Vibrate?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:18AM
yeah at 32GHz but analog nonetheless, awesome tech according to the tfda
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:20AM (2 children)
"acoustically resonate" [...] "components tuned to physically vibrate at a particular frequency and produce a useable electronic signal"
Sounds like a vibrator to me.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)
> Sounds like a vibrator to me.
If you can hear that, you are really good!
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Wednesday February 21 2018, @11:54AM
Nah, I just write SDR software. [fyngyrz.com] :)