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David Romano
2006 Mar 23 (Thu)
Cool article on The Register about researchers at IBM who have created a working processor on a molecule. The scientists explain that the purpose for the research "isn't about making the circuits smaller, it�s about making them faster." The author, however, comments:
This latest experiment was a proof of the principle that nanotubes can be used as a basis for electronics. The technology is a long way off doing useful computation - the nanochip achieved a 52MHz crawl.52MHz might seem a "crawl" to the author, but I remember the 8088, 80286, etc., and the "blazing speed" that Windows booted on my dad's 386SX 16MHz with a whopping 4MB RAM. ISTM that a nanochip running faster than what the top-of-the-line was ten years ago is by no means "a long way off", unless there are other issues involved with using these nanochips. Just my $0.02.
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