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by dogber1 2126 days ago
So many hyperbolic claims that boil down to a moderate 33% area benefit with very little data about mundane things like long-term reliability, or process variation.

Every time an article mentions some buzzword like 'graphene', it turns out to be just a load of baloney. Graphene can do everything but leave the lab.

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Graphene already has left the lab, it's being used in some high-end batteries.
I think graphene gets a bad rap because it's had a very slow ramp up time due to chicken/egg problems in production cost/demand curves, but that's been changing drastically over the last decade. It's come down in cost by multiple orders of magnitude [0] While total sales have been modestly increasing, with projections for massive growth [1] and if there's a steady market cap while marginal costs decrease that much, also means orders of magnitude increases in shipped product.

It's had a lot of growing pains, but we seem to mostly have passed the inflection point in terms of market viability.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fig-12-Comparison-of-the...

[1] https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/graphene...

No, that's just some marketing verbiage with no real physical correspondence.
> hyperbolic

That's exactly the word I had in my mind when I was reading the article!