BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Door open for silicon replacement: "A replacement for the use of pure silicon in electronics has come a step closer, the journal Nature reports.
Silicon chips can malfunction at high temperatures, often from the heat generated in their own circuitry.
But Japanese experts have now overcome the flaws that plague crystals of silicon carbide, a hard compound that is more robust in hot conditions."
Cool beans... now we can truly get 10-20GHz machines within a couple of years!!! Yay!