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Reinventing The Transistor For Molecular Computing
unnique writes "MIT's Technology Review, has an article on HP's research into finding a new way to make transistors smaller, and further stretching Moore's law." The article has some nice illustrations of the nano-componentry they're working on, too.
Theyy are also very likely full of beer and other spirits.
For the record :)
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
I got it! Put the stuff inside a small glass vacuum bubble and make it hot so that electrons jump from one plate to another when............nevermind
Table-ized A.I.
BUT... they're so small you can't see 'em
Why do you think that Intel, IBM, et al are working so hard to continue to shrink their electronics?
It's because of Moore's law.
If they break Moore's law, they are facing some serious jail time.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
It's Isaac Asimov's molecular valves! The next step after transistors!
Why not start out making the smallest then find ways to make them bigger?
I eat my grapes at room temperature, cuz the cold ones hurt my teeth
"Componentry?" Er, what? I'm going to label this one a bullshit buzzword. It does not seem to appear in the dictionary, and the obligatory GoogleFight would seem to confirm that "components" is the accepted term.
Timothy, perhaps you are confused by standard English usage patterns. You see,
toilet -> toiletry and
bigot -> bigotry,
but
apple -> apples and
component -> components.
So I guess Motorola is headed going to the chair huh?
save the GNUs!
Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was discovered. This law was finally proven in 1989 with the release of the vernable 486(TM) DX processor from Intel.
Due to incredible market forces and other mysterious occurences that remain unexplained to this time, chip speed doubled every two years. This remained true even through the infamous Intel factory shutdown in 1991.
The plant was closed for a period of seventeen months due to widespread worker illness. The engineers at Intel had been under tremendous pressure to design a new chip that would double the speed of the impressive 486 DX. Sadly, the engineers were stumped. Adding to this incredible pressure was the unexplanable illness that spread about the facillity like wildfire. This illness would render an otherwise healthy person unconscious for a period of seventeen months. The afflicted person would then rise as if nothing had happened.
Intel enginners were some of the last to be affected by this mysterious illness, and when it struck, there remained little choice but to shutter the plant.
Seventeen months passed, and the lights of the Intel factory remained dim. Offerings by Cyrix and AMD began to overtake Intel's flagship 486 processor.
Suddenly, the enginners began to regain unconsciousness one by one. Strangely, they all had a similar vision while under the illnesses grasp. They begain to call each other on the telephone, comparing notes on what they had 'seen'.
Cautiously, they began to draw plans - plans that would save the great Intel from ruin.
Work went quickly, as each enginner 'knew' what the others were thinking. Soon, the plant was reopened, and fabrication of of the new design began. The engineers collectively decided that the chip would be called the "Pentium". Asked a short time before his unseemly death, an enginner said, "It just HAD to be named that. I don't know why. But we all agreed."
Sadly, the chip that propelled a limping Intel into the forefront of CPU technology was the last that any of the 'Pentium' designers saw to fruition.
Tragedy struck the enginners as they were on their way to the company picnic. The bus that they were riding in plummeted off an embankment into a river, drowning all of them.
Gordon Moore's famous 1965 observation was voted into law in 1994, one year after the release of the new chip. The punishment for violators is death by mysterious circumstance. No one has yet broken Moore's Law, and woe be unto those that do.
Thanks,
Jonathan Frakes
P.S. In your ear, Mr. Smarty-pants.
I DONT WANT TO BE ANY SMALLER!!!!
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They're already there, why do you think Apple had to get the G5 from IBM?
I am unamerican, and proud of it!
My computer is chock full of molecules already and it's quite dependent on them for it's functionality.
-ery or -ry
suff.
1. A place for: bakery.
2. A collection or class: finery.
3. A state or condition: slavery.
4. Act; practice: bribery.
5. Characteristics or qualities of: snobbery.
It would then be proper to say this thread is the height of stupidery.