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New State of Matter Could Extend Moore's Law
rennerik writes "Scientists at McGill University in Montreal say they've discovered a new state of matter that could help extend Moore's Law and allow for the fabrication of more tightly packed transistors, or a new kind of transistor altogether. The researchers call the new state of matter 'a quasi-three-dimensional electron crystal.' It was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space, following the application of the most powerful continuous magnetic field on Earth."
I believe the term you're looking for is Dilithium.
" It was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space, following the application of the most powerful continuous magnetic field on Earth."
That's exactly what I want in my office.
Read carefully; they're cooling temperature itself! Not just cooler matter, but cooler temperature. This is a major breakthrough. Before you know it, they'll be able to achieve faster speeds, longer lengths, smaller sizes, and deeper depths.
Exactly. I just expect the development of new materials to follow Moore's Law. It's the weird hippy cousin of 5 year plans...
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How cold is that in libraries of congresses?
None, because as we all know Librarians are HOT!
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was discovered using a device cooled to a temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space
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Obviously you've never been to Montreal.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Moore's law is about manufacturing on silicon
If it isn't silicon, then it isn't Moore's law.
remember kids, increasing processor speed is a by product of Moore's law/ Moore's law is about cost of manufacturing.
In other news Moore's Law fans are breeding a race of super chimpanzees to take over chip production. Another project seeks to breed 20' long super bananas to cheaply feed the workforce thus extending Moore's Law further.
Dr. Guillaume Gervais, director of McGill's Ultra-Low Temperature Condensed Matter Experiment Lab, describes them in terms of a ham sandwich, where the ham -- the two-dimensional crystal -- represents a flat plane that constrains the movement of the electrons in two dimensions.
Mmmmmm, ham sandwich. Now, off to topology for donuts! Mmmmmmm, donuts.
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[Scientist 1] What? It doesn't fly
[Scientist 2] What I meant was..
[Scientist 3] But look at it's plumage!
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TFA doesn't state any specific temperature, but I find the analogy to how "cold" space is rather troubling.
I wonder how many times colder it is than the Library of Congress. It's always important to have a "Library of Congress" metric in these articles.
Sure...13.95 stories.
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And what, exactly, would that fab breakthrough look like?
I suspect it would come in pink and look really super with a scarf!
4.73 Kelvin
Pffft barely jacket weather.
Tell me when it's below 3.8 Kelvin. THEN I might be impressed.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
You know, we *can* understand Kelvin ... or can we expect the next comparison as "1000 times colder than a polar bear's left testicle".
Perfect vacuum is theoretically impossible
The relevant law of Nature is: "Nature abhors a vacuum."
And since it is Mother Nature, the relevant reason behind this law is the old Mother's law: "Because I said so".
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
They also know that in space no-one can hear you scream. Which is why I am glad he didn't tell me how much colder it is than a Library of Congress.
I'm also a little worried if the string theorists get hold of this. I mean if they can extend moore's law by adding another dimension; quasi or otherwise, we will definitely run out of IP addresses before they hit the 11th!
there, how's that for some sequiturial journalistic embellishment?
Joe Sixpack asks, "Would that temperature keep by brewskis cold, or would it freeze them? Because that's a drag when they explode, and I have to call Joe Plumber to fix the freezer (after I clean off the venison steaks left over from last season), and he's crabby about taxes or some such nonsense. Pass me another cold one."
achieve faster speeds, longer lengths, smaller sizes, and deeper depths.
That's what she said.
The sub prime state... You can pay for it and sell it but when you look at it hard enough it's not really there...
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Helium makes your voice sound funny if you breathe it in.
Moore's law... hell this is going to extend the calculation of the user's home heating/cooling costs past what will fit on a single page.
On the upside, calculating that kind of cost may lead to the finding of a new prime number or two.
An absolute zero temperature vacuum is definitely impossible due to the uncertainty principle.
Well yeah, if you had a brain fart and forgot to turn on the Heisenberg compensators.
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Space is very cold, but screaming for ice cream is useless.
Not a sentence!
Now is when I want mod points. I laughed out loud. I did not LOL. or ROFL.
My brain is overly lubricated
Well, the faster speeds and smaller sizes part anyway.
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It's almost like Moore didn't think things through. Why, the wood furnace and turbine I need to run my billion-vacuum-tube computer takes up the entire city block!
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