[DoingIsLearning]

If you can grow it in a constrainted geometry a grain of rice is a very large footprint for IC design.

The real revolution with something like this is in IC design (computers & Sensors) and maybe Transformer/Inductor/Coil design. Nobody is realistically expecting to roll out hoverboards or HVDC cables with this crystal.

[KeplerBoy]

Wouldn't we need it to be a semiconductor to be useful for ICs? Also what kind of ICs are we talking here? The handful of nanometer cutting edge stuff for compute or power ICs for charging circuits and similar stuff?

[_aavaa_]

I think they're talking about using it for all of the connections between the gates.