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HP Introduces Defect-Tolerant Nano Elements

Posted by timothy on from the just-in-case dept.

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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  1. ....tasteless... by distantbody · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000470046345/

  2. Nanotech & Chinese Military by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This new technology to produce flawless computer chips is vital to national security. We must ensure that the Chinese military cannot access this technology, for Beijing has an aggressive program to modernize the computing infrastructure of its military.

    1. Re:Nanotech & Chinese Military by cybpunks3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I find it interesting that on the one hand we treat China as our mortal enemies and on the other we are completely dependent on them for almost all our manufactured goods. I don't think we can have our cake and eat it too.

    2. Re:Nanotech & Chinese Military by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      One of the problems is the Taiwanese. During the Tiananmen Square Incident, Washington did slap economic sanctions against China. However, doing so opened up a window of opportunity for the Taiwanese. Whereas American investments into China were stagnant or actually declined, the Taiwanese flooded China with money and technology.

      The Taiwanese willingly gave Beijing what we Americans refused to give because our conscience told us to defend freedom and democracy.

      The end result is that our sanctions were ineffective. If we want to really hurt Chinese society and, thereby, force the necessary changes, then we must slap a comprehensive ban on commerce with the entire Chinese community: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

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

    3. Re:Nanotech & Chinese Military by Truth_Quark · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      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.