IBM Scientists Find New Way To Shrink Transistors

MarcAuslander writes that IBM scientists have discovered a way to replace silicon semiconductors with carbon nanotube transistors, an innovation the company hopes will dramatically improve chip performance and get the industry past the limits of Moore's law. According to the Times: In the semiconductor business, it is called the 'red brick wall' — the limit of the industry's ability to shrink transistors beyond a certain size. On Thursday, however, IBM scientists reported that they now believe they see a path around the wall. Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.

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Re: Limits of Moor's law??

[KGIII]

I got damned lucky. I got into a business, specifically traffic modeling (vehicular and then pedestrian), at a time when it was really immature "on a computer." I'm actually an Applied Mathematics doctorate but that was my work. I sold my business and retired about eight years ago. It was pretty lucrative though I don't want to go into details for fairly obvious reasons.

These days, well, honestly? I don't think I could spend the money I have unless I really worked at it or whatnot. I actually invest and make more from investing than I've ever made before and I don't even know what I'm doing. Really, not a clue. I take investment advice from Slashdot comments (bought 2000 shares of Tesla at $245, thank you).

I pay more in taxes than you, almost certainly. However, I pay a much lower percentage than you do. I'd not mind paying higher taxes so long as they were spent wisely. I don't mind helping the poor or disabled. I consider my OBLIGATIONS to include helping those people. They, the citizens, helped to pay me to be where I am today via their taxes. Additionally, I really don't want roving bands of disenfranchised poor people stealing my stuff - I like my stuff, that's why I bought it.

I'm actually your fairly typical Libertarian though this has changed and I may be a minority now thus I think I'll stop arguing and call myself a Classic Libertarian. Damn it, damn it all to hell...

I'm on the left because I like accumulating wealth and acquiring toys. I want you to make a metric ton of cash because your doing so means that I do too. I want you healthy, fed, and educated. I want to carry those who can not because it's cheaper than dealing with the troubles down the road. I support single-payer health care, for example. I love the idea.

I don't care who you sleep with. I don't care about marriage. Marriage is a ceremony. Leave it to the churches. Make civil unions and be done with it. The rights belong to the people and we're ruled by consent. Let's not let those in power forget where the true power lies.

You might be closer to being a Libertarian than you might think. ;)