Posted on 06/10/2005 11:56:19 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Friday, June 10, 2005
UCI breakthrough may mean faster computer chips
Minuscule technology successfully tested that could hasten the day when computer speeds reach about three times faster than today.
The Orange County Register
Peter Burke couldn't believe his eyes, even though technically, he couldn't even see his new discovery.
The UC Irvine computer science professor and graduate student Zhen "Jenny" Yu had successfully tested a minuscule technology that could hasten the day when computer speeds reach 10 gigahertz, or about three times faster than today's. Burke and Yu used nanotechnology to create wiring 100 times thinner than the copper wires in chips today. Nanotubes are so small you can't see them with a microscope.
The breakthrough, announced Thursday, was published in the June issue of Nano Letters, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, one of the world's largest scientific societies. The release coincided with similar research out of Canada that another part of the chip, the transistor, could also be made of atoms. Both discoveries use nanotechnology that could speed up different parts of a computer chip.
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Very interesting article ,. be sure and check the link to original story.
They did good with this one.
No telling what computers will be like 10 years from now. Remember 1995? 64Mb RAM, 10 GB hard drive.....
Thanks E!
Here's a link to a, hmm, not really related FR topic:
Nanoscale light tricks promise huge DVD storage
NewScientist.com news service | 18:07 26 May 2005 | Will Knight
Posted on 06/03/2005 9:39:00 PM PDT by phoenix0468
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1416254/posts
Hey wait a minute though... natural gas is used in the process. Sorry, we can't start using this -- global warming -- unless the carbon used for the nanotubes is recovered from the atmosphere.
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Indeed very interesting. :-)
Thanks!
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