HP: We have invented the next transistor

[alnorth]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/01/technology/hp_transistor.reut/index.htm

Some of the techno-dorks on this board like me will appreciate just how huge this could be. HP has just announced that their research scientists have invented a nano-meter sized device to replace the transistor that is inexpensive and easy to build.

As some of you may or may not know, we are getting close to hitting the physical limits of computer speed right now, we cant build computers that are rediculously faster every few years anymore without running into significant heat or cost issues.

This new American invention could catapult computer speed thousands of times within a decade or two, and its anyone's guess what that could mean for everyday life.

[Hammock Parties]

This new American invention could catapult computer speed thousands of times within a decade or two, and its anyone's guess what that could mean for everyday life.

Better porn.

Oh, and no more board crashes.

[DaKCMan AP]

Yeah, we're discussing this in my semiconductor manufacturing class. The oxide insulator is made smaller and smaller but we're getting close to the point where the distance can't be made smaller anymore before the device would short and not work. I'd be interested in finding out more about what HP is doing..

[Rain Man]

Will this make minesweeper harder?

[mcan]

Better porn.





Well, that IS good news! Now, didn't you say something scientific or something?... Anyway... Ahgg... I'm gonna go watch MTV...

[cdcox]

Moore's law lives on!

[Hammock Parties]

Moore's law lives on!

Is that the thing where you can keep getting closer and closer and theoretically never touch because you're just halving the distance?

[Rain Man]

Is that the thing where you can keep getting closer and closer and theoretically never touch because you're just halving the distance?


It seems like that should be Les's law.

[mcan]

Is that the thing where you can keep getting closer and closer and theoretically never touch because you're just halving the distance?


That's a nice little philosophical conundrum...

[Mr. Laz]

Is that the thing where you can keep getting closer and closer and theoretically never touch because you're just halving the distance?
Moore's Law

(môrz lâ) (n.) The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades.

[Rain Man]

That's a nice little philosophical conundrum...

I learned in college that it's why you can't be shot by an arrow. You just define its motion as a series.

[Hammock Parties]

I learned in college that it's why you can't be shot by an arrow. You just define its motion as a series.

That's why they invented bullets...

[mcan]

Laz...

You're signature is very frustrating... I want to see where Eliza is going with this dance, and yours just keeps repeating!!!!

God, I love that girl!

[Mr. Laz]

Laz...

You're signature is very frustrating... I want to see where Eliza is going with this dance, and yours just keeps repeating!!!!

God, I love that girl!

she goes here.......