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First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-productization dept.

btsdev writes "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have developed the first ever integrated silicon circuit with nanotube technology. According to the article on UC Berkeley's site, this brings researchers one step closer to developing memory chips with carbon nanotubes - chips that could hold approximately 10,000 times more data than those we have today."

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  1. Seven... by John+Seminal · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this means the Ferengi do not have to abduct Seven of Nine after all.

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  2. I'll take it from here... by clifgriffin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see.

    1. I'd like to see a bewolf cluster of these.
    2. How long until it runs linux?
    3.

    I think that covers it all. You may proceed.

    Feel free to contribute.

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  3. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these by RLiegh · · Score: 4, Funny

    stuck under your fingernails!!

  4. Put more science stuff around! by ActionPlant · · Score: 3, Funny

    One step closer!

    We can rebuild him. We have the technology.

    So do these things have good tensile strength if you pack them in bundles? Because when they rebuild me, I want them to use nanotubes. They're definitely the "in" thing right now. Just imagine...legs that can literally "remember."

    Damon,

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  5. More memory than anyone'll ever need? by Graabein · · Score: 4, Funny
    So, does this mean then that we can finally break that pesky Petabyte RAM barrier in personal computers?

    Not that I can see why anyone would ever need more than 640 TB anyways. Except people still using MS Windows and MS Office, of course. Sheesh!

    Ooops, wrong timeline. 'Scuse me while I duck back, er... forwards, to 2014 again.

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  6. A good use for C02 by bishop32x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally a good use for all this stupid carbon! Get out of the atmosphere and into my computer!

  7. Re:Always Impressive by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    You could make a supercomputer the size of your current computer tower

    But... but.. Steve Jobs said my current computer tower is a supercomputer!

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  8. Re:Always Impressive by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Or even maybe implant it in your body."

    I'll pass on the Kray Suppository, thank you.

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  9. And The Race Is On by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Funny
    And the race is on to see which arrives first:

    1: Vastly more memory at much cheaper prices.
    -or-
    2: Such draconian DRM/DMCA/**AA lawsuits/Product Activation woes/SCO lawsuits/stupid Congressional actions and the like such that there is nothing left to put in said memory.

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  10. So when... by ThusandSuch · · Score: 3, Funny

    does the 150,000 Gig iPod come out?

  11. Bad Acronym by Dorf+on+Perl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just thought I'd point out that CNT makes a horrible acronym. No wonder materials engineers can't get dates, going on about all the really tight CNTs they're growing in the lab...