{"id":81064,"date":"2018-07-30T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/what-comes-after-silicon"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:04:03","slug":"what-comes-after-silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/what-comes-after-silicon","title":{"rendered":"What Comes After Silicon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-comes-after-silicon.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon is the king of the computing world. Almost all commercial integrated circuits have been based on silicon and, for the most part, on a single basic process called complementary metal oxide (CMOS).<\/p>\n<p>But the end of silicon may be in sight. Even industry giant IBM acknowledges that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2015\/07\/ibm-unveils-industrys-first-7nm-chip-moving-beyond-silicon\/\" data-href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2015\/07\/ibm-unveils-industrys-first-7nm-chip-moving-beyond-silicon\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">silicon\u2019s days are numbered<\/a>. But why? And what\u2019s going to replace it?<\/p>\n<p>There is a whole raft of new materials and partial replacements for silicon in the offing. But I could have written that very sentence two decades ago\u2014maybe even as far back as 1980. Yet silicon remains dominant.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@laserboy\/what-comes-after-silicon-a812847932a8\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@laserboy\/what-comes-after-silicon-a812847932a8<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon is the king of the computing world. Almost all commercial integrated circuits have been based on silicon and, for the most part, on a single basic process called complementary metal oxide (CMOS). But the end of silicon may be in sight. Even industry giant IBM acknowledges that silicon\u2019s days are numbered. But why? And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81064\/revisions\/81106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}