They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).
The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!
Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.
A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.
quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.
Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.
They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).
The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!
Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.
A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.
inb4 Trump claims the chinese are putting mind control chips in American shampoo
Nah. It’ll be to make them transgendered.
Would using bismuth in chip production affect the price of medicaments?
quick lookup showed pure bismuth at $300/kg. That is not too expensive to make chips, but it would divert demand away from other uses, and we’re gonna need a bigger mine. China will find a way, and likely cost reductions will result from volume.
Still, this is a couple of years (wild optimism and resources devoted to it) at least away from Chip products.
Don’t forget Selenium is also essential to defeat alien organisms!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcEavABwwqg
And it’s Wednesday, so it’s Bismuth Time