Looks like it really is silicon-free:
The process uses an n-type metal-oxide TFT technology based on indium−gallium−zinc oxide (IGZO)
Note that they only have n-type transistors, so they have all the same problems as the old , before everyone switched to CMOS:
Design in n-type metal-oxide thin-film technology is facing many of the same challenges that affected the complexity and yield of the first silicon (negative channel metal–oxide–semiconductor, NMOS) technology during the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular poor noise margin, high power consumption, and large process variation (for example, Vt).
So this is pretty shitty in terms of power efficiency, until they develop a way to make a p-type transistor using these materials.
I think we've reached the end of silicone at this point. Sure, they can reduce the nm to 5 or 3nm, but that's about all. As for plastic substrates, I don't think there is a lot of promise here.
I will say, I don't need high clock speeds for edge devices. I need low power drain. 20Khz clock speeds are fine. I'm using ESP32 devices now and it's very capable with very good power drain characteristics.
What would you say is the future for the industry? I don’t know a lot about this stuff, just curious.
Hard to know because of the fascists running the world. However, silicone has reached quantum limits or will very soon. This means a totally new technology, similar to advancing from tubes to transistors.
In the meantime, CPUs are not going to get faster, rather I think edge devices will become more common. That is, we'll have networks of small IoT devices all communicating with servers.
Microsoft and Google are pushing very hard to get you on their cloud infrastructure. I predict that PCs will become Chromebooks. That is essentially terminals. The operating system will be a subscription and not a buy once model.
Technocrats are trying like hell to control us with social media and forcing us into an economic model where they are feudal lords and we pay to rent their technology. We won't own anything, they will.
I could go on, but I think you get where I'm going.
Reversible adiabatic computing.
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