"William Wixon" wrote in message
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"BottleBob" wrote in message
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To All:

In the January issue of Scientific American there is an article titled
"The Next 20 Years of Microchips: Pushing Performance Boundaries", which
I thought might be interesting, since we're all obviously involved with
using computers.
I've copied some excerpts from the article below.



-snip-

friend sent me this link. first thing i thought was "wow this guy is
creative and smart", second was "this is scary". seemed to me the next
step would be implanting the thing in your forehead so you won't lose it.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...Computing.aspx

b.w.


The problem with pushing the performance is many fold. The geometry is
reaching a limit. You can only make the lines so thin for a couple reasons.
First is the light source to expose the wafer. Why the really thin lines
use X-ray lithography. And 2nd is the properties of the material on the
wafer. At a certain width, the material will actually build connections on
it's own. So the 3 micron line width is starting to approach a physics
limit. Then to get more computing power, you need more computer on the
chip, and you have to make the dimensions very tiny or the power burns up
the chip. Moore's law is about at it's limit. Plus the cubic dollars to
make tighter geometry. I worked for a Semiconductor company for a few
years, and at a billion bucks for a fab and people wanting to pay very
little for the chip, there may not be the money to come up with another way
of putting denser arrays of transistors on a given square of silicon. That
work reliably without a refrigeration unit cooling the chip.

"BottleBob" wrote in message
...
To All:

In the January issue of Scientific American there is an article titled
"The Next 20 Years of Microchips: Pushing Performance Boundaries", which I
thought might be interesting, since we're all obviously involved with
using computers.
I've copied some excerpts from the article below.



-snip-

friend sent me this link. first thing i thought was "wow this guy is
creative and smart", second was "this is scary". seemed to me the next step
would be implanting the thing in your forehead so you won't lose it.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...Computing.aspx

b.w.

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:17:21 -0600, "William Wixon"
wrote:


"BottleBob" wrote in message
...
To All:

In the January issue of Scientific American there is an article titled
"The Next 20 Years of Microchips: Pushing Performance Boundaries", which I
thought might be interesting, since we're all obviously involved with
using computers.
I've copied some excerpts from the article below.



-snip-

friend sent me this link. first thing i thought was "wow this guy is
creative and smart", second was "this is scary". seemed to me the next step
would be implanting the thing in your forehead so you won't lose it.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...Computing.aspx

b.w.

It makes me very very glad to be alive as we push the envelope farther
and farther into ...hummm...what....fantasy and scifi? Push the
envelope farther and farther........

Marvelous!!

Gunner


"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost

"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
... It makes me very very
glad to be alive as we push the envelope farther
and farther into ...hummm...what....fantasy and scifi? Push the
envelope farther and farther........

Marvelous!!

Gunner


Nanotechnology!

Buerste wrote:

"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
... It makes me very very
glad to be alive as we push the envelope farther
and farther into ...hummm...what....fantasy and scifi? Push the
envelope farther and farther........

Marvelous!!

Gunner


Nanotechnology!


Unfortunately, too many are pushing Ninnytechnology.


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