Nano-sized Microchips? HP Says So.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 24, 2002 @06:26AM from the do-you-hear-what-i-hear dept.

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."

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Stupid Patent by Henry+V+.009 · 2002-01-24 06:32 · Score: 0, Troll

Stupid Patent of the Week Award.
All they are doing is saying that they are going to isolate the parts from each other so that they operate independantly. This means that if one part is screwed up, you won't have to throw away the entire chip. This is done in all high process cost engineering designs. Nothing new to see here, move along.