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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. Re:Nature's Little Inventor by lixee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And on a different note, do you think nature has perfected certain tasks and that its engineering can not be surprassed (at least in some areas), or are there things that even nature hasn't perfected?
    My, yes. The human body! Good luck getting anywhere close to that.
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  2. Mimicking Nature - by HW_Hack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to achieve less power consumption and more speed is the new-GHZ.

    Hmmm - I need to make that a bit more snappy .....

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