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Nanocomputing Proof Point

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-logic-gates dept.

untulis writes "HP Labs and UCLA researchers have apparently been able to produce logic gates via chemical processes rarher than standard lithography, making gates only a few atoms in size, according to Saturday's San Jose Mercury News. The article describes the gates as being a thousand times smaller than current gates. Mass production is at least a decade away, if the process turns out to be commerically feasible. "

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  1. Re:Blah.. lets see some details by Masem · · Score: 3
    Coming from academia myself, while it's not
    competition-driven, you do NOT want to fully
    publish your results until you have complete
    proof-of-concept; especially in lucritive areas
    like this, there are dozens of other labs (US
    and int'l) watching for advances like this,
    and they might be able to beat you to the
    punch if you leak too many details. In this
    case, this could cost the group a patent, a
    grant, or other rewards for coming up with the
    first proof-of-concept.


    That's why articles like this, or the one about
    teleportation being possible from about 6 months ago, or many other of the science articles being
    posted to /., are sketchy in details, as the
    group is strongly protecting their potental
    assets.

    --
    "Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
    "I can see my house from here!" - ST:
  2. Generic comment for generic breakthrough by wocky · · Score: 3

    This is so kewl! I can't wait to get one of these babies so that I run Quake at 10000 FPS. And an overclocked dual processor system would be even more AWS0M!!!!!! True there aren't many details in the article, but I'm sure their irreluvant anyway. An if all those clewless researchers working on pushing silicon faster or on the hundreds of alternative new technologies wood just work on this one, we'd get it in only a few years!!!

    With such raducl performance, all those complicated MP (massively polynomal) complete problems will be trivial! Imagine finding factors of a Hamiltonian circuit in just seconds!!! Course one of my teachers mumbled something about hyuge speed increases not really helping on MP problems, but that's obviously B0GUZ!!

    The bad thing will be that this might keep Microsux with their bloatware in business, but that's OK cuz Linux will rock even more on this puppy. Forget those GNOME vs KDE flamewars; we'll have enough juice to run both at once!

    --
    David