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Lucent's New Chip Is Just One Molecule Thick

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. DejaVu!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

    1. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can somebody give me some more information on this? Like what radio station? I don't see anything on CNN or any other major news websites. Also, is(was)n't he 54?

    2. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I heard he had anthrax

    3. 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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    4. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      55! lol

    5. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Well, at least he doesn't call himself "OS/2 Fan" -- talk about long in the tooth...

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

      He was murdered by Bruce Springsteen.

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

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    - JoeShmoe

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  4. 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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  5. 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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    1. Re:Fixed link.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. new NY times Password by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. prank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  8. hot chicks in this message by SirSlud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  9. Molecule of what??? by NTT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If my high school chemistry serves me right: A molecule of Uranium is ~92 times bigger than a molecule of Hydrogen. What kind of molecules are they using?

  10. buy the lucent's stock by takusi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    haha

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  11. 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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  12. King Ludwig dead at 41 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Crazy King Ludwig died in a mysterious drowning in Lake Starnberg... there are rumors swirling about that it was an attack by the right-wing terror group BFWV (Bavarians Fuer Weiss Volkswagens... perhaps better known as the Bavarian Cream Front).

    President Bush was upset he couldn't attend the funeral due to the current Middle East situation (and the 115 year time difference).

  13. Re:With that attitude... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOL that was pretty good actually

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

    I stand (or sit) corrected.

  15. 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."

  16. 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!

  17. One Small Tep by The+Kow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for man..

    One Giant Eap for mankind.

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  18. Re:Sounds Dangerous. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it could sort of cut your penis

  19. Re:DIE YOU SICK PERVERT!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    then he will have more penis to wank

  20. yer a funny muthafuckah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ludwig had a big strange castle, the one that disney world was modelled after. he was a strange cat. i bet he had some righteous orgies in his grotto. yes, his castle had a grotto.

  21. Re:Replace Lucent with Frito-Lay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wondering why Frito-Lay's chips taste like cigarette butch? visit the factory you'll understand

  22. 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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  23. 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"?

  24. Re:Relative thickness... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fat substitutes

  25. Re:Solid State Circuit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can you tell she is female? You are trying to fool me, aren't you? Biznatch!

  26. Re:quantum effects? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Works for me.

  27. Morcheeba rules... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are they ever coming out with another album, or what?

  28. Re:Sherilyn Fenn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If Sherilyn Fenn wanted to shit in your mouth, would you let her?

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

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

  30. Re:Text of the article, so you don't have to regis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderators: Please note the following text in the parent to this post.

    "Dr. Federico Capasso, vice president for psychic research at Bell Labs."

    Maybe it should be moderated down...

  31. 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.

  32. bigger than Katz' brain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The intelligent part, that is.