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1 posted on 10/02/2015 10:07:16 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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IBM's $3bn bet on next-gen computers: Carbon nanotubes, neuro chips

2 posted on 10/02/2015 10:10:55 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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bttt


3 posted on 10/02/2015 10:11:30 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Will it be EMP resistant?


4 posted on 10/02/2015 10:12:44 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Don’t ask how I know but IBM is probably 10 years behind Intel.
I’m also pretty sure nanotubes are not compatible with FinFet technology.
IBM is great at coming up with new ideas.
They are very bad at execution and bringing them to production.

The problem seems to be similar to old Sun Microsystems.
It is run by big iron Server group and the Semiconductor side isn’t valued...until the circuits don’t work as expected.


5 posted on 10/02/2015 10:15:02 AM PDT by Zathras
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BFL


6 posted on 10/02/2015 10:17:00 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Carbon based chips “should” be more compatible with internal applications such as the upcoming iBrain Cyber Brain.


7 posted on 10/02/2015 10:19:48 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A carbon nanotube that is 10,000 times smaller than a strand of hair.

10,000 times smaller? Means what, exactly? And was that an RCH, a BCH, or what?

Right in there with 400% less. Must be common core gibberish.

Why not just use the fraction?

8 posted on 10/02/2015 10:22:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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For a context of how microelectronics have shrunk over the years:

Originally, transistors were somewhere around 7mm wide.
One of the historical great CPUs was the Motorola 68000, which crammed 68,000 transistors into the same 7mm square.
Now we can build a M68000 small enough to fit into the space of one of _those_ transistors - ramming 68,000 M68000 CPUs into the same 7mm square.


10 posted on 10/02/2015 10:40:04 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Al gore’s latest invention?

Built out of carbon?

Strange microscopic times!


12 posted on 10/02/2015 10:58:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Sheldons idea was to use carbon nanotubes for a shelf for a rocket to the space station. Nice that someone took that idea and made transistors.


19 posted on 10/02/2015 2:07:31 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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