IBM has reached a new milestone in its research of graphene transistors. We learned over a year ago that IBM had achieved a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the cut-off frequency of 100 GHz. Now IBM has cranked it up even higher – hitting 155 GHz.
While the 155 GHz number is mighty impressive, it's not really the sort of transistor that's going to be immediately of interest to those looking for the next big personal computing technology.
IBM's work on the graphene transistor is part of the DARPA program to develop high performance radio transistors. Graphene is better suited to analog signals, as it does not have the discrete on/off characteristics of silicon.
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