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Moore's Law Ain't Dead Yet - Bob Schroeck - 05-24-2010
Australian researchers create a transistor with only 7 atoms.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- ordnance11 - 05-24-2010
So the next step is finding a way to for mass production.
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- Bob Schroeck - 05-25-2010
So give it five to ten years...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- Black Aeronaut - 05-25-2010
Less, Bob. Nanofacturing technology is just around the corner. Besides, this isn't the smallest one that's ever been made. Two other groups have made one-atom transistors. Anyone else think we're well on our way to a technological singularity?
- Herr Bad Moon - 05-25-2010
Quote:The researchers are a long way from a commercial process because the tiny transistor they created was handmade. The team used a scanning tunnelling microscope to move the phosphorus atoms into place.
That sounds like a super hero origin story waiting to happen.
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- Ebony - 05-25-2010
Herr Bad Moon Wrote:Quote:The researchers are a long way from a commercial process because the tiny transistor they created was handmade. The team used a scanning tunnelling microscope to move the phosphorus atoms into place.
That sounds like a super hero origin story waiting to happen.
Either that, or a horrible industrial accident. I'm hoping for the former.
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- Bob Schroeck - 05-25-2010
There's a difference between the two?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- The Wanderer - 05-26-2010
Oh, certainly. There are dozens of superheroes whose origins don't have anything to do with any sort of industrial accident, and there have been dozens of horrible industrial accidents which don't seem - so far - to have produced any superheroes (or supervillains) that we've yet heard about.
There does, however, seem to be a disproportionate correlation between the two types of event...