What will follow the silicon chip?

Although we can’t pin down the exact date for the funeral, silicon chips are set to die out just as bipolar transistors did some 25 years before them. And with their death, the era of spintronics will truly be born...

Which brings us to the future. Whereas traditional electronic circuits transport charge carriers – electrons – through a conductor, spintronic circuits harness a different property of electrons to do more work with less effort.