IP: Tiniest Circuits Hold Prospect of Explosive Computer Speeds

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/16compute.html
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> Tiniest Circuits Hold Prospect of Explosive Computer Speeds
> By JOHN MARKOFF
> The New York Times
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> 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.
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> 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.
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