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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. Enough with "moore's law" by Thinkit3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just a wild guess. It has absolutely nothing to do with physics, which is the real laws we all live by. It has much more to do with human laws such as patents and copyrights that limit progress.

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    -Libertarian secular transhumanist