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NASA Wires Chips With Nanotubes

Posted by timothy on from the little-tiny-ones dept.

carstene writes "SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects. Aparently this could keep Moore's law a reality well into the next decade."

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  1. Sorry Dave by bcwalrus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now Mr. Bowman is supposed to pull Hal's nanotube? That's a bit hard.

  2. I gotta do it.... by tiger_66_y2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay everybody you can LOOK at my new CPU, but what every you do, DON'T TAKE A PICTURE!!!

    *flash*
    **POP**

    ....shit....

    :)

  3. Re:Why is NASA doing this? by repetty · · Score: 3, Funny

    NASA doesn't have enough money to do space travel.

  4. Re:Why is NASA doing this? by Mage+Powers · · Score: 4, Funny

    >Why don't NASA use their very limited amount of money for something acutally useful to Space travel.

    Like what? I know! they could make smaller chips for their computers so they could have more onboard computing power without sacrificing having a few spares! oh wait, that probbly involves playing around with nano tech, whoops!
    besides, they probbly raise funds this way...

  5. Moores law will never fail! by kinnell · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one am confident that the media and marketing people will be sufficiently creative to keep people believing in the Moores law myth well into the 23rd century.

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    1. Re:Moores law will never fail! by bluGill · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm still waiting for the day when I can go to Best Buy and get a harddrive with more storage than the number of elimentery particals in the universe. I figgure at current rates that is only about 60 years away.

  6. Chimps... by K3lvin · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read it "NASA Wires Chimps With Nanotubes"

  7. it could be worse like... by Lochdude · · Score: 0, Funny

    NASA spends billions of dollars on a failed space station... No wait they already are doing that.

  8. Nooooo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We can't use nanotech! It'll be toxic and dangerous to breath in!

    WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT SNIFF YOUR CHIPS! :(

    So much for enjoying the new computer smell. :(

  9. One Million Amps!!!???? by addikt10 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Understatement of the year:
    One advantage of using carbon nanotube interconnects within integrated circuits is that these interconnects have the ability to conduct very high currents, more than a million amperes of current in a one square centimeter area without any deterioration, which seems to be a problem with today's copper interconnects,"
    Dr Evil: One - Meelleeeooon Amps!!!!!
  10. how many amps??? by daveatwork · · Score: 2, Funny

    More than a million Amps in a cm^2?? If space applications in the future are gonna need currents of a million amps going down a wire that feeds under your vertical bed, I sure as hell won't be an astronaut! :-)

  11. I know where they got the idea from by Wicked+L · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just like the microwave, this is just yet another technological advancement made possible by Roswell.

  12. Ban It! by Ignorant+Aardvark · · Score: 3, Funny

    I call for an immediate ban on all future use of nanotubes by NASA. I don't care about the "performance increases" they claim. All I care about is the health effects of nanotechnology - this must be banned before it gets out of control!

    -Crazy researcher from other recent /. article

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  13. Only in America... by uwbbjai · · Score: 2, Funny

    SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects.

    In other news, Intel's R&D department announced that mounting heatsink+fan on shuttles' thermal tiles can efficiently disspate heat during reentry into the Earth atmosphere.

  14. NASA by JerryLs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, this is the same NASA that only uses 486's in shuttles?

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