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IBM's Snowflake Microchips

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the nature-knows-best dept.

Phantom of the Opera writes "The BBC reports that using self-assembled polymers and copying natural patterns, IBM hopes to have microchips that are 30% faster and consume 15% less energy. The secret? Adding a little nothing in all the right places."

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  1. Boo by fatduck · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happened to the provocative, editorializing troll-summaries? How am I supposed to start a heated argument based purely on speculation? You give me what, two sentences, like you want me to read TFA? Well, fuck you. Self-assembling polymers? Copying natural patterns? Who makes these things, IBM, or CYBERDYNE? What if these get into the hands of our children? Will the next school shooting be 30% faster and 15% more efficient?

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    1. Re:Boo by RealGrouchy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, it's a little editorial tactic called "putting a little nothing in all the right places".

      - RG>

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  2. Just like a snowflake. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, no two will be alike? Programming for them will be interesting.