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Nano-sized Microchips? HP Says So.
ImaLamer writes: "A C|Net News story is reporting that HP has announced they have made breakthroughs that 'help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.' Also in the article, that the patent announced Wednesday, will produce no two chips that are the same. 'Each one will be customized for a particular function,' says Stanley Williams, the chemist on the team. The work was done by himself, Phil Kuekes, a computer architect, and James Heath, a UCLA professor. The chips use nanowires and the chips are said to be even less than the size of bacterium. Sounds cool enough. The biggest part of the breakthrough isn't the chips themselves, but that HP plans to be able to 'fix' chips which come out with imperfections, thus saving money on an already cheap process."
Yahoo has more information, saying that they have "patented a process they said on Wednesday would eventually help turn out powerful computers which fit on the head of a pin with room to spare." It's nice to see that there's still some life left in the company.
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I know this is all still a bit sci-fi, but if we could finally put together NanoBots.... it kinda boggles the imagination.
It has applications in:
-consumer electronics
-medicine
-military (covert, weapons, etc.)
-industrial machinery
-nano-tech - nano-bots that construct other nano-bots
-ad infinitum...
It makes me light headed just thinking about it. Must be all that vapor.
;+)
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They keep on making those Vacuum Tubes smaller and smaller.
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"Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?"
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.
So they've hired angels?
I wonder what kind of deal they were able to cut with God.
And all this time I thought Carly was making deals with the Devil...
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
Vaporware . . . chips so small they can be inhaled.
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd09xx/EWD926. PDF
From the HP Nano-chip(tm) manual :
In order to make sure your HP Nano-chip(tm) will continue working, please AVOID the following :
* Windy areas
* Opening windows
* Sneezing
* Breathing
* Movements of any sort
* Using cooling fans
By making sure you follow these simple guidelines, your HP Nano-chip(tm) will provide years of quality computing power!
your jesus is another mans xebu. chew on that hypocrites.
"the patent announced Wednesday, will produce no two chips that are the same. "Each one will be customized for a particular function"
Translated: Our QC is SO BAD, we're not going to be able to make two that are exactly the same...we're looking at the M$ "It's not a bug, it's a feature" approach
:)
RB
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Microsoft sues HP over utilizing the prefix "Micro-" in defining their new chip technology:
"We're afraid that the customer will make the assumption that Microsoft manufacturers these chips," states company CEO Steve Ballmer, aka "Monkey Boy". "If this technology ever makes it into intrusion detection systems, they'll effectively have 'microchip windows', and that's confusingly similar to our trademarked Microsoft Windows."
The interviewer's rectum fell through his colon as he laughed.
--SC
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I want them in my brain. Quick what's 984*632-75?
Yeah, and no one will ever need more than 64k of RAM, either.
Damnit, I sneezed and blew my computer off the desk!
An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
'no two chips that are the same. "Each one will be customized for a particular function"'
This interprets as HP are making chips configured completely randomly, and when they come off the fab., they will test them to see if they have any particular function.
"hey look this one can find prime factors"(?)
This also explains how they will "fix" imperfect chips.
"well it did for a bit but now it seems to be quoting shakespeare"
HEY MAN I RESENT THAT STATEMENT. RIGHT N
/. hypocracy.
OW I AM ON MY COMMODORE 64 AND IT WORKS F
INE FOR EVERYTHING I NEED TO DO. 40 COLO
UMNS IS ENOUGH FOR ANYONE. ALSO WHO EVER
HEARD OF PUTTING MORE THAN ONE PROGRAM I
NTO RAM AT ONCE? THATS INSANE! WELL HAV
E A GOOD DAY -- GIGS
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the voices in my head tell me to use less caps... well mr lameness filter, that sort of makes my message not very funny without all those caps. I guess it is a form of censorship, when I can't even type what I want to. That's the worst kind of censorship, prior restraint, oh well, more
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.