NASA Wires Chips With Nanotubes

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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royalties

[TerraFrost]

with the money NASA can get off the patents for these, the space program may indeed have a future! :)

quantum entaglement

[astafas]

What interested me more, was that at the bottom of the article, it mentions that we have quantum entanglement of 3 electrons working. I don't know what will be more useful to continue Moore's Law, the nanotubes or the quantum computers. The nanotubes seem to be an evolutionary upgrade where the quantum computers seem to be more revolutionary.

Re:quantum entaglement

[addaon]

Well, in terms of keeping moore's law, clearly the evolutionary technology is preferred. One of the most obvious corollary of moore's law is that progress is continuous; revolutionary directly implies non-continuous, and it seems unlikely that the development of feasible quantum computers would lead to a keeping of moore's law, rather than a breaking of it in one direction or the other.