Nanotech in Microchips by 2015

dotwhynot writes "Molecular electronics, a realm once considered science fiction, could be heading for our computers and devices sooner than thought. A new report on the technology roadmap of the chip industry finds a growing confidence in new nanotechnology, and forecasts that the transition to the post-silicon era could happen by 2015. The development of nanoswitches has already reached a point where it will be possible to manufacture them reliably at low cost. Intels goal over the next decade is to build chips that hold more than one trillion switches."

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Re:Heat

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> Who was it that said soon microchips will be hotter than the surface of the sun if they keep getting faster at the same rate they are now?

1) James Clerk Maxwell
2) Max Plank
3) Gordon Moore
4) All of the above ;-)