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Intel Experimenting With Nanotubes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tuuuubes dept.

illeism writes "C|Net is reporting on Intel's experimentation with nanotubes in processors. From the article: 'The chip giant has managed to create prototype interconnects — microscopic metallic wires inside of chips that link transistors ... Carbon nanotubes ... conduct electricity far better than metals. In fact, nanotubes exhibit what's called ballistic conductivity, which means that electrons are not scattered or impeded by obstacles.'"

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  1. Someone Alert Ted Stevens! by vought · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tubes are ascendant!

    Truly, Ted is a technology genius. It's only a matter of time before these "nano tubes" are implemented to speed delivery of Internet content.

    1. Re:Someone Alert Ted Stevens! by Darth+Liberus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Haha, I was going to say "a processor is not a big truck you can dump something on... it's a series of tubes!"

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    2. Re:Someone Alert Ted Stevens! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd like to see you fit a CPU through those tubes when some other schmuck is streaming his video CPU. Why, I sent my 'mov 0x000010D0' CPU 300 milliseconds ago, and my CPU just ended 2 milliseconds ago! You have to understand that those tubes can be clogged! :P

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    3. Re:Someone Alert Ted Stevens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      You have to expect clogging if somebody does a core dump in your tubes.

      I can't believe the grandparent was modded insightful. Who'da thought Stevens reads Slashdot and had mod points?

    4. Re:Someone Alert Ted Stevens! by Sloppy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Steven's wasn't as prescient as you think. Remember all those ads about Intel CPUs making your internet faster?

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  2. Nanotubes? by JFMulder · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean like really really small Internets?

  3. What??? by Rellik66 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Nanotrucks?

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  4. Re:Don't let random people write science articles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    People will conduct electricity (otherwise the electric chair wouldn't work), does that mean that people are made out of metal?

  5. Re:Don't let random people write science articles by pyrote · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a stupid comment. If a carbon nanotube conducts electricity then it is by definition a metal.
    |People will conduct electricity (otherwise the electric chair wouldn't work), does that mean that people are made out of metal?

    And if they float, they are witches! BUUURN..... er ahem.... carry on.

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