Comment by Valkyrie_Ice on New Year's Predictions Thread · 2010-01-02T11:20:15.793Z · LW · GW

Have you not heard that they discovered a way to use graphene as a one to one replacement for copper in chip production. That alone will allow speeds of 12-15GHz.

I would put faster chips using multicore running at many times current speeds will be available by 2011-2012 at near 100% certainty.