how is this material paired with semiconductors to create the chips you mentioned (very dense ones)
current lithography machines use silica wafers, can this lead be placed inside a silica wafer with a coating and a lithography machine?
is there any example of lithography with lead?
It’s not lead it’s LK-99.
Lead is one of the elements and I talk about a specific isotope of a specific element of the material.
The superconductor equivalent of a transistor is called a Josephson Junction. A Josephson Junction is a thin layer of insulating material placed between two superconducting materials. It can switch on and off, or exhibit various states of resistance, much like a semiconductor switch, but with near zero energy loss and very fast switching speeds. This makes it ideal for certain applications like quantum computing.
It allows for chips that generate zero heat.
Overheating is the limiting factor for CPU’s. It your CPU generating zero heat, it could be overclocked to a fantastic speed.
eg 100x faster.
understood but i think my core question remains
is there any usage of this type of material in a current generation chip?
might come out as a dumb question, "prototype material on a current gen system, are you stupid?"
i mean, gasoline is used in several different generations of engine, as an analogy, is there a material that would have physical properties similar to LK99 that has ever been paired to a silica chip?
which process was used to create that
my thought process is, carbon nanotubes are a mega advancement in material science, usage is still very limited due to how hard it is to manufacture in a usable state, is that something you would consider as a problem for LK99, its a mega material but manifacturing is very hard and manufacturing in a usable manner even harder
i hope i dont come out as too dumb 🤤
Transistors are semiconductor switches. So no, that’s not how superconductors work. Superconductors use a Josephson Junction.
Semiconductors get hot and break down if you run them too fast, they age. RTSC’s do not have these limits.
We wont use LK-99, we will probably find a dozen RTSC’s by xmas. People are already looking past LK-99 for better ones.
last question then (thanks already in clearing some of my doubts)
silica transistors are about to become old tech?
how would rtsc affect the current tech? is lithography becoming old tech?
is tsmc with their current billions of dollars worth of tech in a position where they need to reinvent themselves (in a few decades) or is their expertise transferrable to the new materials?
Skills and experience probably transfer, plant and IP not so much.
Rarely do incumbents companies emerge in a new paradigm in good shape.
New capital will just form without their plant debt and hire their staff.
