After Intel served up ten years of 4-core consumer parts, only to get a kick in the butt by AMD whom said; OK masses here's 8-cores for a reasonable price with Ryzen... I really don't respect Intel-anything anymore, I just don't care what they have or what they've kept in the backseat for a decade.

I for one think this is great. Micro transistors are in desperate need of a revolutionary change and MESO seems like a good step in the right direction. It's just unfortunate this had to be Intel to do it. This has an unbearable stench of monopoly. If this were TSMC or GloFo, I would be thrilled. Maybe even Samsung I'd be ok with, but I'm a little wary about them since they could still deliberately hoard such a technology all to themselves, where all of their other contracts would remain on CMOS. EDIT: It's also worth pointing out that it's best to focus on silicon-based transistors, since they're well-studied, relatively easy to work with, and affordable to mass-produce. Stuff like carbon nanotubes or quantum computers aren't [yet] steps in the right direction for mass-production.

well said guys, but Intel only sucks in the executive suites and marketing departments. they do Big Science really well and this is so incredibly rare that this is being published in Nature, not an industry related publication. and a bit of a hurrah to my alma mater, which has always done the biggest science.