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Sporkman
March 25th, 2011, 11:42 PM
Researchers in Europe used 4,000 plastic, or organic, transistors to create the plastic microprocessor, which measures roughly two centimeters square and is built on top of flexible plastic foil...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/168256/The-First-Plastic-Computer-Processor

fela
March 25th, 2011, 11:44 PM
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/168256/The-First-Plastic-Computer-Processor

Wow, that's awesome. First we hear about diamond chips (isn't manufactured diamond not that expensive). Now plastic?! :D

EDIT: All I wanna know is if things'll get cheaper once they start making plastic chips :P