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DARPA Looks Beyond Moore's Law

Posted by timothy on from the and-around-and-through dept.

ddtstudio writes "DARPA (the folks who brought you the Internet) is, according to eWeek, looking more than ten years down the road when, they say, chip makers are going to have to have totally new chip fabrication technologies. Quantum gates? Indium Phosphide? Let's keep in mind that Moore's Law was more an observation than a predictive law of nature, despite how people treat it that way."

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  1. what next... by Keebler71 · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they want to get around privacy laws, now they want to break Moore's law...these guys have no bounds!

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  2. Reality distortion field by BWJones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Moore's law, bah! Thinking about it, DARPA should get Steve Jobs on board to study his Reality Distortion Field. Think of the military aspects of.......oh, wait. We already have that.

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  3. Paradigm shift by L.+VeGas · · Score: 3, Funny

    This idea of speeding up processing speed is barking up the wrong tree and ultimately doomed to failure. We need to be focusing our attention on biochemistry and molecular biology. We already have drugs that slow your reaction time, thus making things appear to happen more quickly.

    See, if we get everybody to take xanax or zoloft, there's no limit to how fast computers will appear to be working.

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  4. Clockwork's Corollary to Moore's Law by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every 18 months, someone will develop a new law to compute the rate at which the estimate of the rate at which the number of transistors on semiconductor chips will double will halve.

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