At the China International Graphene Innovation Conference, a number of companies and institutions discussed the use of graphene as a replacement for silicon in chips. The Graphene Copper Innovation Consortium has already been set up to deal with these issues. The list of participants includes The Chint Group, Shanghai Electric Cable Institute and Shanghai Graphene Industry Technology Functional Platform.

The new organization is expected to allow the introduction of graphene into chip production, which will provide 10 times higher performance compared to silicon-based chips. No specific dates have been announced yet.

In 2010, IBM demonstrated graphene chips with frequencies up to 100 GHz. The company stated that the performance could be raised to 500 and even up to 1000 GHz, but mass production did not begin then. The main reason for this can be called the high cost of such chips. In other words, few people will buy them, since modern silicon chips still provide the required level of performance.

And in 2019, Forrest Norrod, vice president of AMD's data center division, said that graphene chips would have to wait another 10 years.

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