"This establishes a new benchmark for transistor performance," says Doug Barlage at North Carolina State University, US. "It is probably three times faster than the fastest silicon-based device."
Feng and Hafez developed a transistor less than half a millionth of a metre long, with a
maximum operating speed of 604 GHz, meaning it can carry out 604 billion operations every second.
"This establishes a new benchmark for transistor performance," says Doug Barlage at North Carolina State University, US. "It is probably three times faster than the fastest silicon-based device."
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