Goodbye Silicon! Your Next Computer Chip Could Be Made of Gallium Oxide
A new material may be coming for ‘Silicon Valley’ as researchers are looking towards gallium oxide to produce faster computer chips than ever before. Moore’s …
Rich CEO: "Oh no, we're running out of rare earth metals, and communism is falling, I don't wanna pay a fair wage to workers! What am I gonna do?"
Is it Gallium Oxide or Gallium Nitrate? Or are these just two competing materials?
The computer used by nasa to steer the Saturn V was made from very thin wires in a grid with iron rings around each spot it crossed. SmarterEveryDay has a phenomenal video about that computer if you’re interested
Will the new Intel 7nm CPU be made of Gallium?
The have diamond semiconductors and will most likely make diamond processors from that or a hybrid of diamond and Gallium Oxide.
How exciting! Glad I woke up today. 🙂
I don't think that Gallium Oxide gives more "scalability", 1.5~2.5nm will still be the hard limit no matter what material you use due to quantum tunneling and the size of the atoms/molecules themselves. I mean you still have to manipulate the material to be conductive or non-conductive (depending on what you need) which is currently achieved by coating wafers in a material that creates a protective layer which hardens when shooting UV light through a mask at it and then you etch the rest away and "dope" connections. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm67wbB5GmI A silicon atom is about 217 pm(0.217 nm) wide and we use Silicon Dioxide (which is a bit bigger) for our current wafers and you need a few molecules to create a working transistor. The theoretical hard limit is a 5-molecule width transistor (which would be ~2nm wide). Why? Because a transistor needs a source, a drain and a gate (3 connections) and you need spacing between transistors, meaning 1 molecule width to each side, a total of 5. And this is THEORY, reality makes these things even harder (Ever seen a 100% pure material? Me neither). There is a reason 7nm is such a technical marvel, because it uses ~3 molecules per connection, 5nm will reduce this to about 2 molecules.
Gallium itself is just marginally smaller (187pm), Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) consists of 2 Gallium Atoms and 3 Oxygen atoms and doesn't have a size advantage over Silicon Dioxide. The "breakthrough" she's talking about was made with MOSFETs which are 5 micrometer (that's 1000x 5 nm) and the cool thing about it was that they can withstand much higher voltages than Silicon MOSFETs and have a lot of potential usecase in high power applications such as power plants. They are also tested in FinFETs because of potential cost benefits but you won't see it in smartphones and consumer CPUs in the near future (if ever).
This could be dangerous because gallium melts easily
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We'd probably see diamond processors first.
Lady Ga2 approved this.
She so 80's….
If this happens at all, it will take at least 10 years. There are billions of dollars in infrastructure to manufacture silicon wafers and process them. There is nothing to produce Gallium Oxide. The more likely scenario is that chips will grow in the vertical direction (Z-axis) and gain density that way (more transistors). From the reading I have seen Gallium oxide is only useful for power applications, a relatively small but important segment of the industry. There is already infrastructure in place to produce Gallium Nitride for power applications. Don't kiss silicon goodbye quite yet.
Hey I saw the verge saying gallium nitrite is superior to silicon and I heard this before would you guys mind doing a vs comparison video at some point lol
I just want to say, computing power can still double 100X once the photon based processor Cal State is programming is released.
This sucks. Now I have to buy a new heatsink when I upgrade. Maybe I'll buy an all Aluminum tower with aluminum cooling pipes/radiator and heatsink. Yeah, that's the idea!
Do you really understand this yourself ? I don't think so.
She’s hawt
silicon is abundant
it would appears Talk Technical Talk Science copied this word for word almost. the page is called Silicon to Gallium Oxide : The Short Transitioning detail and i can open it in another tab and it reads almost word for word. it apears a day older then this video also. just thought i would let you know.
Gallium Oxide Valley here we come
Gotta farm those Galliums and Oxium, am I right ? #Warframe
Hello, Maren, When I received my master's degree at the technical university 40 years ago, we were already dealing with gallium arsenite transistors for special tasks. So what are we talking about here? A galaxy far far away, a time long long ago?
make more videos about this please. and the host is great. beautiful eyes too. 🙂
what about graphene or is that more for quantum chips
In No Mans Sky you could just use Plutonium. Also the speaker is dumb.
Gallium Oxide Valley
2:02 "This field is new, like a couple of months ago new". Gallium nitride has been commonly used in LED's since the 1990's. Semiconductor diodes are essentially one half of a p-n junction transistor, they have been made out of silicon, gallium, and germanium for many years.
Gallium Valley …. I'm buying up real estate there now … going to be rich!!!!
Moore's Law was an observation.
Can you turn off the background music please?
Just focus om quantum computers already and work from there because that will render your 1's and 0's useless
I left my crap in sanfrandisco.
very imformative. she reminds me of someone who doesnt know what to do with thier hands
this is interesting
3 Japanese from NICT, Kyoto university professor and Tamura Corporation started development of semiconductor of gallium oxide and succeed first.
Well,gallium is really old semiconductor,nothing new.
It could be good to try to measure the impact of the advances on automation in cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5laBg-ERbQ&t=73s
Rich CEO: "Oh no, we're running out of rare earth metals, and communism is falling, I don't wanna pay a fair wage to workers! What am I gonna do?"
Is it Gallium Oxide or Gallium Nitrate? Or are these just two competing materials?
The computer used by nasa to steer the Saturn V was made from very thin wires in a grid with iron rings around each spot it crossed. SmarterEveryDay has a phenomenal video about that computer if you’re interested
Will the new Intel 7nm CPU be made of Gallium?
The have diamond semiconductors and will most likely make diamond processors from that or a hybrid of diamond and Gallium Oxide.
How exciting! Glad I woke up today. 🙂
I don't think that Gallium Oxide gives more "scalability", 1.5~2.5nm will still be the hard limit no matter what material you use due to quantum tunneling and the size of the atoms/molecules themselves. I mean you still have to manipulate the material to be conductive or non-conductive (depending on what you need) which is currently achieved by coating wafers in a material that creates a protective layer which hardens when shooting UV light through a mask at it and then you etch the rest away and "dope" connections. Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm67wbB5GmI
A silicon atom is about 217 pm(0.217 nm) wide and we use Silicon Dioxide (which is a bit bigger) for our current wafers and you need a few molecules to create a working transistor. The theoretical hard limit is a 5-molecule width transistor (which would be ~2nm wide). Why? Because a transistor needs a source, a drain and a gate (3 connections) and you need spacing between transistors, meaning 1 molecule width to each side, a total of 5. And this is THEORY, reality makes these things even harder (Ever seen a 100% pure material? Me neither).
There is a reason 7nm is such a technical marvel, because it uses ~3 molecules per connection, 5nm will reduce this to about 2 molecules.
Gallium itself is just marginally smaller (187pm), Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) consists of 2 Gallium Atoms and 3 Oxygen atoms and doesn't have a size advantage over Silicon Dioxide.
The "breakthrough" she's talking about was made with MOSFETs which are 5 micrometer (that's 1000x 5 nm) and the cool thing about it was that they can withstand much higher voltages than Silicon MOSFETs and have a lot of potential usecase in high power applications such as power plants. They are also tested in FinFETs because of potential cost benefits but you won't see it in smartphones and consumer CPUs in the near future (if ever).
And for those who actually demand scientific sources in a Youtube comment, here you go:
http://jss.ecsdl.org/content/8/7/Q3202.full
TL;DR: Gallium Oxide won't make your computer faster.
1:15 computers have doubled processing power lololololo
Why not just go Optical? #plasmonics
This could be dangerous because gallium melts easily
Wanna marry u
004040444040004404040404004040
We'd probably see diamond processors first.
Lady Ga2 approved this.
She so 80's….
If this happens at all, it will take at least 10 years. There are billions of dollars in infrastructure to manufacture silicon wafers and process them. There is nothing to produce Gallium Oxide. The more likely scenario is that chips will grow in the vertical direction (Z-axis) and gain density that way (more transistors). From the reading I have seen Gallium oxide is only useful for power applications, a relatively small but important segment of the industry. There is already infrastructure in place to produce Gallium Nitride for power applications. Don't kiss silicon goodbye quite yet.
Hey I saw the verge saying gallium nitrite is superior to silicon and I heard this before would you guys mind doing a vs comparison video at some point lol
I just want to say, computing power can still double 100X once the photon based processor Cal State is programming is released.
This sucks. Now I have to buy a new heatsink when I upgrade. Maybe I'll buy an all Aluminum tower with aluminum cooling pipes/radiator and heatsink. Yeah, that's the idea!
Do you really understand this yourself ? I don't think so.
She’s hawt
silicon is abundant
it would appears Talk Technical Talk Science copied this word for word almost. the page is called Silicon to Gallium Oxide : The Short Transitioning detail and i can open it in another tab and it reads almost word for word. it apears a day older then this video also. just thought i would let you know.
Gallium Oxide Valley here we come
Gotta farm those Galliums and Oxium, am I right ? #Warframe
Hello, Maren,
When I received my master's degree at the technical university 40 years ago,
we were already dealing with gallium arsenite transistors for special tasks.
So what are we talking about here?
A galaxy far far away, a time long long ago?
make more videos about this please. and the host is great. beautiful eyes too. 🙂
what about graphene or is that more for quantum chips
In No Mans Sky you could just use Plutonium.
Also the speaker is dumb.
Gallium Oxide Valley
2:02 "This field is new, like a couple of months ago new". Gallium nitride has been commonly used in LED's since the 1990's. Semiconductor diodes are essentially one half of a p-n junction transistor, they have been made out of silicon, gallium, and germanium for many years.
Gallium Valley …. I'm buying up real estate there now … going to be rich!!!!
Moore's Law was an observation.
Can you turn off the background music please?
Just focus om quantum computers already and work from there because that will render your 1's and 0's useless
I left my crap in sanfrandisco.
very imformative. she reminds me of someone who doesnt know what to do with thier hands
or gallium nitride, gallium arsenide