Is this the technical development that will finally give me my jet pack?
So I wonder when Jane will make her appearance.
How is this any different from the quantum computing R&D that IBM has been working on for years?
Is this the technical development that will finally give me my jet pack?
| 6,586,965 - Molecular crossbar latch |
| Inventor(s) | Kuekes; Phillip J. (Menlo Park, CA) |
| Assignee(s) and Licensee(s) | Hewlett Packard Company |
| USPTO | Info at USPTO |
| Date Granted | 2003-07-01 |
| Country | USA |
| Description | 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. |
This could be the next "bubble memory"!
Does this mean that I have to throw out my 8-track now?
When I went to school the hot topic was submicron gate lengths.
Useless, as long as we have to continue using Microcrap operating systems.
how long before they start making biological ones?
"said in a statement that the technology could result in computers that are thousands of times more powerful than those that exist today."
No doubt, running on Windoze.
/sarcasm off.
"Computer.........."
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.