HP: We have the next transistor

CNN:Money ^ | February 1, 2005

[meandog]

gallium-arsenide or silicon carbide?

[maine-iac7]

how long before they start making biological ones?

Already been made - and it is us.

We just haven't learned how to utilize all the gray matter yet ;o)

[Richard Kimball]

You don't have to get rid of your eight tracks if I don't have to get rid of my 45's and Betas. That's 45's as in RPM, not caliber.

[Paradox]

Pretty soon we'll have enough computing power to get THIS:

[AxelPaulsenJr]

HP (up $0.25 to $19.59, Research) said in a statement that the technology could result in computers that are thousands of times more powerful than those that exist today.

"Computer.........."

[RightWhale]

Quantum computers are on the way, but it will be decades until they can work useful problems. Right now they are up to 7 atoms, and they will need millions of atoms to be practical.

[AngryJawa]

Blue screen of Schwing!!!

[Lurking in Kansas]

A molecular crossbar latch is provided, comprising two control wires and a signal wire that crosses the two control wires at a non-zero angle to thereby form a junction with each control wire. Each junction forms a switch and the junction has a functional dimension in nanometers. The signal wire selectively has at least two different voltage states, ranging from a 0 state to a 1 state, wherein there is an asymmetry with respect to the direction of current flow from the signal wire through one junction compared to another junction such that current flowing through one junction into (out of) the signal wire can open (close) while current flowing through the other junction out of (into) the signal wire can close (open) the switch, and wherein there is a voltage threshold for switching between an open switch and a closed switch. Further, methods are provided for latching logic values onto nanowires in a logic array, for inverting a logic value, and for restoring a voltage value of a signal in a nano-scale wire.

Dang it. I just finally did that last night in my basement. That's the story of my life; always just a few months late....

[Richard Kimball]

I read a strange article a couple of years ago about biomechanical interfaces. Some of it I confirmed from other sources, some I've never heard of in any other publications. One of the stranger claims was that there is some experimentation going on in which brain and nerve cells were cultured and kept alive in a relationship with a silicon environment. I didn't understand a lot of the text, but basically these guys were trying to develop a type of computer memory where there would be a combination biological mechanical relationship. It was supposed to have implications in "growing" rather than producing memory chips, and also in biomechanical interfaces for direct nerve control of artificial arms, legs, etc. I have no idea if these guys were legit or Art Bell types.

[maine-iac7]

Then there are the 'super string' etc - researches - Maybe one day we'll learn how to 'tune in' directly to the "Universal Google"...

;o)

[Paradox]

Oh, there was a blue screen there too?

:)

[the invisib1e hand]

That's an obscure joke

Way over my head, too. But I do get the one in post #19.