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IP: Tiniest Circuits Hold Prospect of Explosive Computer Speeds
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 04:46:00 -0400
From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com> To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/16compute.html Tiniest Circuits Hold Prospect of Explosive Computer Speeds By JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Plunging deeply into a microscopic world that promises ultrafast, low-power computers, a research team has for the first time fashioned simple computing components no bigger than a single molecule. The achievement, being reported Friday in Science magazine, opens a new window onto a once speculative but now increasingly probable vista of molecular-scale sensors, computers and machines. The researchers, from Hewlett-Packard Co. and the University of California at Los Angeles, say their work could be a step toward computers 100 billion times as fast as today's most powerful personal computers. And they envision a world in which supercomputing power is so pervasive and inexpensive that it literally becomes an integral part of every manmade object. <snip> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Geoff_Goodfellow () iconia com, s.r.o. * tel/mobil +420 (0)603 706 558 Vsehrdova 2, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic * fax +420 2 5732 0623 "Success is getting what you want & happiness is wanting what you get"
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