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Limits to Moore's Law Launch New Computing Quests

tringtring alerts us to news that the National Science Foundation has requested $20 million in funding to work on "Science and Engineering Beyond Moore's Law." The PC World article goes on to say that the effort "would fund academic research on technologies, including carbon nanotubes, quantum computing and massively multicore computers, that could improve and replace current transistor technology." tringtring notes that quantum computing has received funding on its own lately, and work on multicore chips has intensified the hunt for parallel programming. Also, improvements are still being made to current transistor mechanics.

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  1. Re:Is this necessary? by donpeyote · · Score: -1, Troll

    yes lets create even more technology...thats what we need to live our lives right?

    f`cking assholes

    just keep on inventing, keep on going forward...until there isnt anything.

    why not just stop and think about what we are doing? nahhh no interess there, must produce...fcking cows all of us IT/coders/scientists

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    sorry for eventual bad english, not my mother language
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