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IBM Builds Nanotube Chip
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| 3/23/06
Posted on 03/24/2006 1:36:37 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter
When is IBM going ro build a better dip?
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posted on
03/24/2006 1:42:46 AM PST
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Nitro
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To: Straight Vermonter
A carbon nanotube is really small. The lads are working with individual atoms here. This technology is deep into the quantum world. This is a major achievement.
Perhaps we have a real "One small step for a man, a giant leap for all mankind."
"What hath God wrought?" Indeed.
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03/24/2006 1:45:43 AM PST
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Iris7
(Dare to be pigheaded! Stubborn! "Tolerance" is not a virtue!)
To: Straight Vermonter
like wide ties, VW beetles, and bell bottoms...wait long enough, and they come back in style...
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posted on
03/24/2006 1:54:19 AM PST
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AntiGuv
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To: AntiGuv
Ping me next time 'round, will ya?
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:12:23 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(None dare call it ISLAMOFACISM!)
To: the invisib1e hand
I have some of those, and I'm immediately going to coat them with carbon and put them on eBay.
To: AmericaUnited
i'm very pro-analog. i think digital is death.
To: endthematrix
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posted on
03/24/2006 2:28:18 AM PST
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AntiGuv
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To: Straight Vermonter
The circuit is less than a fifth of the width of a human hair and can only be seen through electron microscope.
To: Straight Vermonter
Eventually they're going to make my cellphone too small for me to use.
To: PBRSTREETGANG
DON'T PANIC! It will be plugged into your ear, and be powered by your brain waves.
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03/24/2006 4:29:52 AM PST
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SubMareener
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To: SubMareener
...and be powered by your brain waves.And I thought I had bad reception NOW!
To: Straight Vermonter
IBMs carbon nanotube IC is nearly a million times faster than previous ICs built with multiple carbon nanotubes. Even then, IBMs prototype clocks only at 50 megahertz. The fastest chip on the market today is a 3.8-gigahertz Pentium 4 by Intel.
In other words the IBM carbon nanotube IC broke the speed needle.
To: Paul C. Jesup
I have worked with Pentium D (dual core) servers. The heat sync on the CPU chip is a dense block, about the size of a 1 lb box of butter, of rib vented copper. The servers have four very high speed (loud) fans with a funnel down to the heat sync that blow air over the CPU assembly. Under high load, the air coming off of the heat sync is similar in volume and temperature to that of a hair dryer.
The limitations of this technology are obvious. We are nearing the end of viability with silicone. As I was looking at this server, I was thinking: "Sure wouldn't want that in a laptop roasting the old chestnuts."
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:02:21 AM PST
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IamConservative
(Who does not trust a man of principle? A man who has none.)
To: AntiGuv
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posted on
03/24/2006 5:03:24 AM PST
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truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: IamConservative
I believe the heat is generated by the Pentium D/T the Math coprocessor on the same chip as the CPU. Great speed - great heat. Would it slow things down to much to separate them again or is the heat penalty worth it, for miniaturization purposes?
Your thoughts, please, oh leaned one, for I am barely knowledgeable of these facts.
Thanks
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03/24/2006 5:07:09 AM PST
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truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
To: SubMareener
"It will be plugged into your ear, and be powered by your brain waves."Yeah, swell, if you have brain waves.....'n' what if ya don't?? Huh?? What then, smartie, huh???
To: Paul C. Jesup
"In other words the IBM carbon nanotube IC broke the speed needle." Also if memory serves this tech will eliminate (or at least reduce) one of the major barriers to speed in processing, Heat!
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03/24/2006 5:09:53 AM PST
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Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Straight Vermonter
BTW; my first computer was a TRS-80, Mod 1, Level 1, 4 k memory, and Tiny BASIC. With a black and white monitor (TV with no channels) and a tape drive for storage. When you turned it off, you lost everything. Not event he latest model in 1980, but at $599.99 at radio shack, it was all I could afford.
A Model 1, Level 2, with 16k memory was $999.99. and if you wnated a 8" single sided, single density 'floppy' disc it was a$1500 more. A dot matrix printer of 132 characters was $700. An 80 Character printer was about $$499 if memeory serves me correectly.
Aaafter having read what I just wrote - MAN AM I OLD OR WHAT.
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03/24/2006 5:12:15 AM PST
by
truemiester
(If the U.S. should fail, a veil of darkness will come over the Earth for a thousand years)
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