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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. 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
  3. Re:The Diamond Age by OneIsNotPrime · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Slashdot article is here and the Wired article is here .

    Since diamonds have a much higher thermal conductivity (ie they can take the heat), they'd make better chips than silicon if only they were more affordable. Industrial diamonds are expected to make the whole industry's prices fall drastically by increasing supply and breaking the De Beers cartel .

    More about the De Beers cartel:

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    Everything2 link

    Personally I think these are awesome feats of engineering, and a way to give your significant other a stone without feeling morally, and literally, bankrupt.

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