1.   Bernard Meyerson, director of telecommunications technology at IBM, was recognized for his role in developing silicon germanium transistors, which operate faster than ordinary silicon devices.

2.   IBM said that the nanotube transistors it built also carried two to four times as much current as comparable silicon devices.

3.   IBM researchers have created carbon nanotube transistors that substantially outperform models of even advanced silicon devices without departing from the most common design of silicon chips.

4.   Nor can such chips be easily integrated with silicon devices.

5.   The processing speed of organic transistors is vastly inferior to that of silicon devices.

6.   The tiny silicon devices go into everything from cars to cellular phones to cable modems.

7.   The Teramac, as it is known, was built with standard silicon devices.