I'm not sure if Northland is a subsidiary of Comcast or not, but here in Starkville, MS, we started noticing that whenever we start a Bit-Torrent transfer, our connect bogs down and we get "Connection Reset"s on every address visited until the Torrent is closed. Note: this was observed while running low transfer rates, so its not just a bandwidth issue. This just started happening within the past week. So, torrents for patch updates and legal downloads are now nixed. I wonder what sort of content companies like Comcast and Northland will decide is worth forging reset packets next.
I'm not sure I see where all of this is fitting into "putting a super computer in your hands." If one is talking about overall processing capability and clustering cores, thats all CMOS on-die design. I'm not seeing where these nanowires tie in. Increasing our on-chip computational ability will have more to do with overall CMOS scale down. Want a whole computer on a chip? We've already got plenty of microcontrollers. Want one really fast? Make a design on a 45nm process instead of 180nm.
This isn't some kind of miracle discovery that is going to save us from the CMOS brick wall coming up within the next couple of decades. With the next generation of scale down (or even currently at the 45nm process) we have Layer 1 metal lines the same width as this nanowire tech. I suppose you could say that you could shrink down the entire system and go for a SoC approach, but even then, you're more constricted by die sizes, not wire widths. And if you go with a Die-on-Die approach, why use complex nanowires when you can get the same sizes from through-die vias.
Of course, this would be a different story if the values given in the article are incorrect and the nanowire tech scales down to the picometer range (or single digit nanometer width). If that is the case, after the large fabrication issues that come with introducing new chemistry to the process are addressed, then this could allow for much more area on the Die and allow for greater transistor densities.
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I'm not sure if Northland is a subsidiary of Comcast or not, but here in Starkville, MS, we started noticing that whenever we start a Bit-Torrent transfer, our connect bogs down and we get "Connection Reset"s on every address visited until the Torrent is closed. Note: this was observed while running low transfer rates, so its not just a bandwidth issue. This just started happening within the past week. So, torrents for patch updates and legal downloads are now nixed. I wonder what sort of content companies like Comcast and Northland will decide is worth forging reset packets next.
I'm not sure I see where all of this is fitting into "putting a super computer in your hands." If one is talking about overall processing capability and clustering cores, thats all CMOS on-die design. I'm not seeing where these nanowires tie in. Increasing our on-chip computational ability will have more to do with overall CMOS scale down. Want a whole computer on a chip? We've already got plenty of microcontrollers. Want one really fast? Make a design on a 45nm process instead of 180nm. This isn't some kind of miracle discovery that is going to save us from the CMOS brick wall coming up within the next couple of decades. With the next generation of scale down (or even currently at the 45nm process) we have Layer 1 metal lines the same width as this nanowire tech. I suppose you could say that you could shrink down the entire system and go for a SoC approach, but even then, you're more constricted by die sizes, not wire widths. And if you go with a Die-on-Die approach, why use complex nanowires when you can get the same sizes from through-die vias. Of course, this would be a different story if the values given in the article are incorrect and the nanowire tech scales down to the picometer range (or single digit nanometer width). If that is the case, after the large fabrication issues that come with introducing new chemistry to the process are addressed, then this could allow for much more area on the Die and allow for greater transistor densities.
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