HP Introduces Defect-Tolerant Nano Elements

versicherung writes "With the ever shrinking feature size in microelectronics it will soon be prohibitively expensive to manufacture defect-free nano elements. HP has come up with a new way to produce fault-tolerant microchips. Utilizing mathematical techniques borrowed from coding theory, HP will be able to produce those chips by using a cross-bar architecture and adding 50 percent more wires as an 'insurance policy,' to fabricate nano-electronic circuits with nearly perfect yields even though the probability of broken components will be high."

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Re:Nanotech & Chinese Military

[Truth_Quark]

No one has the gumption to pursue this route because many Americans politicians are in the pockets of the Taiwanese government.

No mate, they're just seeing the bigger picture.

At 9.1% growth per annum, China's economy will be larger than the USA's at 4.4% growth in 2015. Sooner if the flow of experts to Europe due to the weak american dollar starts affecting the rate at which technology advances in the USA.

It should be noticed that the thing about a world where there are tow super-powers is that they are at war.

Arms sales to, and economic support for Taiwan serves to decrease the stability of China, who have been building up their military near the Taiwan Strait since the communist revolution. (Except that untill 10 years ago that meant hordes of peasants armed with handfuls of mud and sharpened kernels of rice). Now it means muti-headed balistic missiles, and more tanks than America could produce in a month of Sundays.

Maybe Sunday afternoons.