news.bbc.co.uk — Scientists have succeeded in creating a circuit of 12 transistors laid out along the length of a carbon nanotube. The circuit is less than a fifth of the width of a human hair and can only be seen through electron microscope.
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grinningfoolMar 24, 2006
But does it run Linux yet?
longofestMar 24, 2006
Nice work getting the story to the front page. Definitely a good achievement in computers. If you want to see a different article about the same breakthrough, see: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/technology/IBM_Creates_Integrated_Circuit_With_Carbon_Nanotube">http://digg.com/technology/IBM_Creates_Integrated_Circuit_With_Carbon_Nanotube</a> (submitted long before this story, but I don't mind since it ended up flopping and this one ended up getting front page. at least there was a decent amount of time between the submissions)
databyssMar 24, 2006
I would image that chip size is the least of concerns in building a computer.Bus size and other components take up most of the space.
vegaobscura3Mar 24, 2006
10 years ago, getting speeds of 50 MHz was insane. We are taking a small step back, not starting over. This increases the speed of moving forward, and is not slowing us down at all.
masterdwarfMar 24, 2006
just imagine your computer having a wig in your case and every strand of hair on that wig containing chips that size. That deserves a Neo, "whoa".
Closed AccountMar 24, 2006
not sure they're talking about gem quality diamonds, but then again, I'm not certain that I'd want a lot of occlusions in my chipset :).
fatlipMar 24, 2006
while this is really f**king cool... its also really f**king scarythis could easily be used in really negative ways like tracking, prying, spying, and like someone said earlier about DRM (even though it was a joke) -- imagine having to use an electron microsope to disable drm?
nullmindMar 24, 2006
Someone (who was modded down) above posted that "3.2 x 3Ghz = 10Ghz" for the XBOX360. If we are counting multi-processor machines or clusters (eg; Google,) we would be here all night.This looks like a great step in the right direction.