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Transistor one atom wide
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| June 14 2002
Posted on 06/13/2002 8:00:35 AM PDT by dead
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06/13/2002 8:00:35 AM PDT
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dead
To: dead
Scientists at Cornell University in New York have built a transistor just one atom wide. Unfortunately, before their feat could be independently verified, they misplaced the one atom wide transistor. They're still looking for it.
To: dead
I want a computer so small it only has one key on the keyboard.
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posted on
06/13/2002 8:04:45 AM PDT
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Lazamataz
To: dead
I guess the size of a transistor can't be scaled down much more than that.
To: Lazamataz
Which key?
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posted on
06/13/2002 8:08:32 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
I'm guessing the "W"???
To: Lazamataz
You still use a keyboard? I've got these implants in my brain ...
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posted on
06/13/2002 8:13:29 AM PDT
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Mo1
To: alloysteel
Come on, you know better than that. Some day it'll be ,
"remember when we used to have those clunky one atom transistors? Man were they slow."
A Meg of memory? who would ever need that much?
A gig hard drive? Impossible!
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posted on
06/13/2002 8:15:40 AM PDT
by
tet68
To: Lazamataz
"...only one key on the keyboard."
Buy an Apple!
Ooops, that's the mouse that only has one key
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posted on
06/13/2002 8:22:19 AM PDT
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Woodman
To: Woodman
LOL! Touché!
To: Woodman
Apple..... Granny Smith or Golden Delicious ???
To: null and void; shadowace; lazamataz
Which key? That's simple. The only key any computer needs...
To: Lazamataz
I want a computer so small it only has one key on the keyboard.Would a monitor with only one pixel suffice?
To: dead
The next step is the organic logic device based on organic devices to aproximate the processing power of the human brain.
A human can see an image of something as complex as a human being. The human can be facing the camera, or in profile. Standing up or stiting down. Dresses in rags or in the latest fashion, and we can recognize them in an instant. Computers are not even close to human performance. But they will be.
The first computer was invented by a man names Babbage who worked on it from 1799 to 1840. His computing device had RAM and ROM, program instructions, input, and output. His research was paid for by the British government. The problem was he only had metal and wood from which to build it.
The first digital computers used radio tubes. They needed tons of electricity. A single byte of data needed 8 coils of wire around 8 magnets to store it. The invention of transistors did away with tubes only to quickly followed by integrated circuits. Today we are reaching the limit of integrated solid state devices just as we did 40 years ago with tubes.
The new organic devices will replace solid state as easily and as quickly as the tranistor replaced the tube and the integrated circuit replaced the individual transistor.
People have been publishing such articles since at least the 1880s. Then they wanted the government to stop wasting money on the patent office. It seems there were lots of people in 1880 who were certain that everything had already been invented.
Moores law could speed up. It is unlikely to slow down. The world is full of creative people.... except for journalists.
You need to remember that
Chicken Little was the worlds first journalist and set the standard for accuracy in reporting.
To: Willie Green
Would a monitor with only one pixel suffice?So long as it had video RAM with only one byte.
To: Common Tator
Moore's Law has sped up, its now down to 14 months instead of 18, and expectations are it will be at 10 months.Is it any wonder that productivity just keeps chugging along?
To: Common Tator
The next step is the organic logic device based on organic devices to aproximate the processing power of the human brain.The human race will be obsolete within 50 years.
To: dead
It appears that the narrowest part of this transistor is one atom wide. The article doesn't say how wide the whole transistor is.
To: Common Tator
Organic (DNA based) or quantum copmuting will be the next breakthrough. It will not merely continue Moore's law but it will in fact be a huge step forward by orders of magnitude.
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