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Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick

Posted by timothy on from the thinner-than-ally dept.

lotusFlow writes: "According to this NYTimes article, Lucent has developed a chip with a layer of transistors that is one molecule thick. This development is considered a new tep above nanotech because "here you direct the molecules with self-assembly to go where you want them to go." Commercial applications of this technology are years in the making, of course."

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  1. And meanwhile here I am... by JoeShmoe · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    STILL waiting for FDM-ROM to hit the market...

    http://www.constellation3d.com

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  2. Could Somebody Please Tell Me... by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    What's the difference between this story and the a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/17/ 1844217&mode=nested">one on the same page?

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  3. Fixed link.. by CtrlPhreak · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Link

    It's time to get a new keyboard when half your keys work half of the time. It's also time to goto bed when you're sloppy enough to click submit instead of preview. (either that or get some caffeine!)

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  4. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by NonSequor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This one doesn't even make sense. What the hell is wrong with you?

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  5. hot chicks in this message by SirSlud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    sirsonic.com labs has been able to develop a sexual organ one molecule in size! His doctor is retaining the research and details, in anticipation of patenting the discovery (in RF licencing of course). A joint venture with Decode Genetics (old?) will proove if SirSlud is icelandic once and for all.

    Reports have circulated suggeting SirSlud would love if he tested positive. Witness report SirSlud having mutter Bjork through a mouthfull of drool before he was carried away by security.

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  6. Department of redundancy department... by hoggoth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here is a sampling of today's headlines on Slashdot. See if you can spot the problem:

    -Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick
    -Sprint ION's $100/mo, 8Mbps Home Service Tanks
    -Researchers At Lucent Announce One Molecule IC
    -Developers: SkyOS Now Runs Linux Binaries Natively
    -Molecule Sized Transistors
    -TiVo Gets In Deeper With Sony
    -Bell Labs announced single-molecule length organic transistors
    -Ask Slashdot: Neighborhood Area Networks?
    -New Era of Molecular-Scale Electronics
    -Consonants Not Required

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  7. Re:It doesn't matter how small the transistors get by dinotrac · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I stand (or sit) corrected.

  8. In Related News.... by Cryptimus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In related news, Scott Culp - Manager of Microsoft's Security Response Center - publically castigated security experts for creating security flaws in Microsoft products.

    "It's high time the security community stopped practicing Information Uncertainty." said Culp.

    "Due to the quantum effects inherent in all new CPUs, searching for flaws in otherwise secure systems actually generates the very flaws being looked for."

    Culp extended this theme further by claiming that non-security related bugs in Microsoft products were induced entirely by the faulty perception of the user.

    When questioned about the relative paucity of security issues under Linux, Culp replied, "Linux clearly hasn't been subjected to the same level of scrutiny as our products. If it had, more security issues would have been found. The lack of exploits for Linux security holes shows just how poorly it's been tested."

    Culp went on to say that opponents of Microsoft were agents of communism who refused to recognise the genius of Bill Gates and described "Temptation Island" as "a really fine example of quality programming."

  9. PARENT IS *NOT* THE REAL TEXT!!! by morcheeba · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's been modified to sound like rubbish! Ha Ha, very funny. Moderators, you got duped!

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  10. Re:Solid State Circuit. by Karma+Sink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The above poster is female, ergo, if she were a "fag", she wouldn't be interested in penis.

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  11. Psychic uranium quark-tube capacitor revolution! by Nindalf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now this is a truly beautiful gag. You should work writing technobabble for Star Trek.

    But why isn't it moderated "funny"?

  12. Re:Sounds Dangerous. by glenebob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's what you get for being on the cutting edge...

  13. Re:Psychic uranium quark-tube capacitor revolution by mumkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Because no one who's actually read the post inline has had moderator privs. Alternatively, the only moderators who have actually read it are idiots :)

    If you believe in The System, you've got to belive that someone will come along to mod it to Funny, and that the people who voted it "Informative" will lose some cred via meta-moderation. It's a young story yet.

  14. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by rudy_wayne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He was murdered by Bruce Springsteen.

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