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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. Why is this under ASK SLASHDOT?? by tavon79 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Why is this exactly under "ask slashdot?"

  2. Re:That was a really lame troll by dankjones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmm...How about a beowulf cluster of these?

  3. IBM will be here for a long time .. by fymidos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IBM has been going down since 198something when compaq entered the pc market .. but it's still here .
    It has software,hardware and propably the best R&D department in the area of computers ..

    IBM will stay . Sun will stay ..

    for some software company lately trying hardware market i don't know ..

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  4. Re:The Hair by DivineOb · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    There are just some things that are very hard to visualize.


    such as your penis?
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