MIT's Hybrid Microchip To Overcome Silicon Size Barrier

schliz writes "MIT researchers have successfully embedded a gallium nitride layer onto silicon to create a hybrid microchip. The method could be further developed to combine other technologies such as spintronics and optoelectronics on a silicon chip. It is expected to be commercialized in a couple of years, and allow manufacturers to keep up with Moore's Law despite today's shrinking devices."

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Re:On "exponential" growth

[vertinox]

Rather quickly, they hit upon some underlying limitation in the physical world, and progress stops.

The problem is that you are viewing the technology industry as the same as natural evolution.

Yes, bacteria and various species do hit limitations on their exponential growth because they run out of food.

But technology in general expands on those limitations and raises the bar faster than the limitations can keep up.

I mean when is the last time you saw a bacteria species create their own irrigation system and food storage systems?

The difference between natural evolution and applied intelligence is that intelligence adjust the limitations directly and not simply live with them.