A Cedar Rapids company that specializes in manufacturing rugged computers has added a new twist in their latest computer - a carbon fiber chassis. Crystal Group's tiny REO412 computer is believed to ...

PCWorld explores how laptop manufacturers are innovating beyond traditional materials, introducing carbon fiber, ceraluminum, and advanced metal alloys to differentiate their products. These material ...

Engineers at Northwestern Engineering and the University of Texas at Dallas have designed a novel computing system made solely from carbon. The system could potentially replace the silicon transistors ...

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Stanford scientist Max Shulaker knows that when it comes to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), expectations are high. That's why when he and his team made the first computer entirely from carbon nanotubes, he ...

Researchers at Stanford built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while using ...

Carbon-based computers have the potential to be a lot faster and much more energy efficient than silicon-based computers, but 2D graphene and carbon nanotubes have proved challenging to turn into the ...