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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

Posted by samzenpus on from the tiny-hardware dept.

stupendou writes "Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and quicker than today's silicon-based machines."

2 of 127 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Finally, a computer so small... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I always mess up some mundane detail"

  2. Re:Too small by c0lo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want steam based computing. Big things lots of spinning wheels and whistles. Down with this mamby-pamby micro electronics.

    Just be careful with overclocking.

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