Not really new news in the field, but a good laymans terms article on carbon replacing silicon
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/s...leID=218100324
the biggest hurdle right now, as far as moving away from silicon is concerned, is finding a process that works as well as processes used in silicon. For those that took first year chem or something related to this field, you can pretty much understand near-all of it as it talks about the benefits of carbon. Unfortunately, they didn't talk at all about the processes of how to use carbon is mass production.