> To reach these extreme speeds, the team made junctions consisting of a graphene wire connecting two gold electrodes. When the graphene was zapped with synchronized pairs of laser pulses, electrons in the material were excited, sending them zipping off towards one of the electrodes, generating an electrical current.

> “It will probably be a very long time before this technique can be used in a computer chip..."

So this is interesting, but largely irrelevant for most HN folks. We'll be retired before it is productized.