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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."
ya know... this is turning into a real pet peeve of mine:
100,000 times thinner, reduced by 200%, 3 times less power...
I see what they mean, most of the time (although the 200% is kinda vague) but if you mean 1/100,000th as thick, that is not really the same as 100,000 times thinner. I tend to view thin and thick as complements under addition, not reciprocals.
mutter mutter. Pedants are never bored, but tend to be boring.