That's right -— making diamonds. Real ones, all but indistinguishable from the stones formed by a billion or so years' worth of intense pressure, later to be sold at Tiffany's."
Very interesting read. I ran across an article two years ago in Wired magazine that spoke of another company called Gemesis that also is in the business of making home-grown diamonds. That article, which is a great read, is here.
Now, don't go all nutty saying "OMGAH! you like diamonds??!!?". Well, yeah, but not for aesthetic reasons. It's the hardest substance known to man therefore allowing it to withstand tremendous amounts of heat without damage to it - technically it can handle extremely high thermal conductivity.
What this means is that today's silicon based microprocessors could one day be replaced with a diamond "core" allowing for some truly insane speeds that today's microchips would literally liquify under the same conditions. For comparison, today's microchips can run as much as around 93.3C/200F. Diamond based chips could handle MUCH more than that while providing speeds that we can only dream of at this point.
Move over ladies; diamonds will soon become a geek's best friend.
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