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IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-it-work dept.

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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  1. That's Really Cool and All by XBL · · Score: 2, Funny

    but when can I actually buy a computer with this technology? 10 years from now?

    I like to see research of this type, but there needs to be more research with short-term effect.

  2. Some weird title by quartz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ask Slashdot: IBM Creates 1st Single Molecule Computer Circuit

    Erm, what was the question again?

  3. You'd need to use scanning electron microscope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to even see a beowulf cluster of these ;)

  4. huh... by piecewise · · Score: 3, Funny

    Huh? I don't get it.

    Dammit. Back in my day, we had real transistors, and silicon. We made chips out of SAND, dammit! None of this molecule pish posh. I ain't never gonna use some computer made from plants. You new-age scientists sure are ungrateful...

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  5. Very nice... by KewLinux · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but does it run Linux?

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