IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit

Llowfyr writes "Yahoo has reports that IBM researchers have created the first ever single molecule computer circuits which may someday lead to a new class of smaller and faster computers that consume less power than today's machines. The IBM team made a `` voltage inverter '' -- one of the three fundamental logic circuits that are the basis for all of today's computers -- from a carbon nanotube, a tube-shaped molecule of carbon atoms that is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. IBM scientists will present the achievement today at the 222nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society being held in Chicago and it appears in the web edition of the ACS' journal Nano Letters."

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Can you imagine..

[Anonymous Coward]

a Beowulf cluster of these babies?

That was a really lame troll

[DirtMcGirt]

Whatever happened to the subtle, witty ones?

Re:i wonder

[blair1q]

Gordon Moore has several billion dollars and is Chairman Emeritus of one of the fifth or sixth biggest corporation in the world*.

Meanwhile, your name insults you, you have no karma, and your posts are moderated down by default.

You do the math.

--Blair
"Who loves ya baby."

* - They used to be first, but people stopped buying cell-phones, and the whole transistorized-crap market went south from there. Now the money's in gasoline and baby clothes.