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Researchers Create 4nm Transistor With Seven Atoms
EmagGeek writes "University researchers have created a transistor by replacing just seven atoms of silicon with phosphorous. The seven-atom transistor has hopeful implications for the future of quantum cryptography, nuclear and weather modeling, and other applications. 'The significance of this achievement is that we are not just moving atoms around or looking at them through a microscope,' says Professor Michelle Simmons, a co-author of a paper on the subject that is being published by Nature Nanotechnology. The paper is entitled 'Spectroscopy of Few-Electron Single-Crystal Silicon Quantum Dots'."
By this logic, if I ran a rail through my head and the rail started to rust, that would be evidence that people can rust.
No thanks, I will wait for a computer to get staph before I accept this as evidence of a virus moving between person and machine.
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The current theory is to treat the processor like the brain such that it can handle noise and failure. The brain is able to function just fine with loosing brain cells on a regular basis. If the computation is implemented correctly then the processor will be able to do the same. If you have a million nodes on a chip then why not treat it like google treats their cluster. Who cares if you loose a few nodes. The real question will come down to how fast and if they are clustered.