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How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nano-pc dept.

ScienceDaily on what the future might bring for atomic-scale computing: "Joachim, the head of the CEMES Nanoscience and Picotechnology Group (GNS), is currently coordinating a team of researchers from 15 academic and industrial research institutes in Europe whose groundbreaking work on developing a molecular replacement for transistors has brought the vision of atomic-scale computing a step closer to reality. Their efforts, a continuation of work that began in the 1990s, are today being funded by the European Union in the Pico-Inside project. ... The team has managed to design a simple logic gate with 30 atoms that perform the same task as 14 transistors, while also exploring the architecture, technology, and chemistry needed to achieve computing inside a single molecule and to interconnect molecules."

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  1. zzz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    niggrs

    1. Re:zzz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      That sounds like the license Rob Malda released his gaping wide red swollen asshole under.

  2. They can't get smaller than JESUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    JESUS is everywhere, meaning that HE is about the size of the planck space. Also, I fucked your sister.

  3. Reminds me of a question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    for woman only - what would you prefer, big and floppy or small and naughty? :-)