[oblomov]

Sure, nature has limits, but human ingenuity is limitless, because we are made in the image of God.

[Ray76]

Brought to you by the greedy free market.

[roadcat]

A transistor is an electronic switch that, by flipping between “on” and “off”, provides a physical representation of the 1s and 0s that are the fundamental particles of information.

A transistor is much more than that, this is a very simplistic explanation. Nothing here about gating power when it is switched.

[Paladin2]

Chemical Batteries lag SO far behind.

ABC (always be charging) these days for my stuff.

[moovova]

Oh...thought you meant the movie...

Seriously though... I just finished watching the first season of Humans...the program about robots built in a perfect human form. A few were even developed with a "conscious". The program left me feeling uneasy.

[Ciexyz]

Using computers is logical. Using computers for Facebook is illogical. Facebook is getting very weird with the Democrats posting their drivel against Trump.

[Robert DeLong]

Just to put it into perspective, PC’s have had for quite some time now, more memory than IBM mainframe models 360 & 370 combined, and each required a big air cooled, dust controlled, room to operate in. But these new chips also improved the mainframes. So while a PC is powerful a mainframe has also gotten much more powerful.

[Maceman]

[mythenjoseph]

My 1971 truck has outlasted 75% of the computers ever made..(1971 is the starting year of Intel) there is something to be said of keep it simple stupid...the only thing I have altered on my 71’ International is changing out the points to an electronic ignition gizmo for about a 100 bucks...come to think of it thats the same money I paid for this whole compter set-up i use....newer is not always better....and you will never see a machine doing re-roofs/plumbing installs...siding/changing over electrical panels....if all you can do is push paper then you should worry...me not so much...I have never seen a machine twisting wrenches for car repair?...The machine Davinci they use for operations is hacking people up and is drowning in law suiots for slicing intestines and people bleeding out ...(doctors remotely operate with this thing)

[SandRat]

Now when are you going to produce one even smaller, so small that it can be used in medicine to be surgically injected in the brain area to help MD's, heal/cure folks that have tbi and very SERIOUS BRAIN/COMA Recovery issues? MDs have only been playing, pretending, that they are treating tbi or bran injury people in the US since 1841.

[Vendome]

I want Moore....

[I want the USA back]

Wait a minute! 4/3 the speed of light is impossible.

[WMarshal]

They didn’t build that! Al Gore had a dream and Lo, when he awoke, it was there on his pillow. Gore then gave it to Intel to reverse engineer and copy. /s

[Dr. Sivana]

if the car from 1971 had improved at the same rate as computer chips, then by 2015 new models would have had top speeds of about 420 million miles per hour.

Not a good comparison. The processor is only one part of the equation, and my word processing documents don't load much faster than they did 30 years ago because the formatting got more complex and no one writes major apps in assembler anymore.

[norwaypinesavage]

I was a proud user of the 4004 Intel chip. It was a four bit microprocessor we controlled with a Texas Instrument monitor that had cassette tapes for recording the data. I still have a couple of the tapes kept just for nostalgia. Intel bragged that it took a team of a couple dozen engineers a whole 9 months to design the chip.