Very interesting article on Wired - Flawless Diamonds are now being produced. They've also been able to dope the diamond crystals to form both P-type and, just recently, N-type crystals (needed to form a semiconductor junction). It will only be a few years before they can make wafers large enough for efficient mass production of chips.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
Intel:
Perhaps AMD won't be so reluctant...
Did a search, but only came up with a few posts about using diamond for cooling. Of course, with the prospect of flawless Diamionds being supposedly readily available in a few years, I'm sure there will be some quite interesing cooling solutions.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
Intel:
"It takes us about 10 years to evaluate a new material. We have a lot of investment in silicon. We're not about to abandon that."
Perhaps AMD won't be so reluctant...
Did a search, but only came up with a few posts about using diamond for cooling. Of course, with the prospect of flawless Diamionds being supposedly readily available in a few years, I'm sure there will be some quite interesing cooling solutions.