The next step to atomic processors!

[Szech]

This technology is interesting allright... yes, interesting indeed...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37923,00.html

[smokin1]

Canadian eh?
Very interesting...
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[Missing the point]

I could do that http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[Donkey]

This is the sort of field that i am working in at the moment. Every conference you go to there is someone showing you a nice atomic line they have drawn using an STM (scanning tunneling microsope) or something. All very good but highly impractical on the large industrial scale.
One of the project being worked on in our group is 3-d processors, with not one but several layers of silicon stacked up on each other and pathways going between the layers so making any direction of pathway possible. Sounds very nice but it is going to be v. difficult.

[brandon184]

Canadian eh?

Yeah... Canadian.

The coolness of the 365 Arctic year (I wish..) we have here really helps cool a microprocessor.

LMAO

- Brandon

[Missing the point]

Donkey, Yeah, difficult in more ways than one! Imagine trying to keep that thing cool, when there is so much inside of it, that most of it doesn't get cooled? I guess ya would have to build it so that it doesn't generate much heat.....