Diamonds Are A Geek's Best Friend
Synthetic diamonds for your next CPU, apparently this is not to far off. The durability of diamonds at high temperatures may revolutionize high-performance processors and could help make the electric car a reality for consumers around the world.
De Beers says synthetic production poses little threat to its market for traditional mined gems, quoting research showing that 94 percent of women want real -- not synthetic --diamonds.
De Beers has also developed machines that can tell even colorless synthetic gem diamonds from the real thing, to prevent synthetic diamonds being passed off as mined gems.
