RE: virus: Nanotech is here

From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Thu Mar 25 2004 - 18:07:00 MST

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    [Blunderov]
    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,533496,00.asp

    CPU Breakthrough: Chips Enter the Nano-Age
    By Loyd Case

    Today, we're seeing microprocessors from Intel and AMD using 0.13 micron process technology in high volume manufacturing. That's 130 nanometers. But just how big (or rather, how small) is 130 nanometers? According to Sunlin Chou, Intel's Senior Vice President for technology and manufacturing, the size of a typical virus is 100 nanometers. So today's manufacturing technology creates circuit traces approaching the size of the smallest living organism.

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    [rhinoceros]
    More than one year has passed since, and Intel has already rolled out a 0.09 micron Prescott CPU running at the same speed as existing ones. The reaction of the computer enthusiasts was not very warm -- overclockers were disapponted -- but it is still a first. It takes some work to realize the potential of a new toy like this one.

    http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1554111,00.asp

    [Walter]
    I noticed at the book store yesterday, the current price of an Athlon 64 bit 3.4 GHz CPU was just $400. 64 BIT!! Jeeeezzzzzzuuusss.

    A 32 bit 3.4 GHz CPU is only $200

    Walter
    <They're gonna have to write a new Moore's Law>

    [rhinoceros]
    Some tech sites bitch that Moore's law has been overdue to deliver in the last 18 months. Others bitch that the increase in the number of transistors has diminishing impact on the final user and that smarter technologies such as hyperthreading will be more important.

    Well, there used to be an argument that Moore's law is a self-fulfilling prophecy. That the hi-tech coporations could do better but there was a tacit conspiracy to hold back innovation and to market it according to Moore's law. If this was ever true, today it isn't. They will have to get their asses to invent photon transistors if that is what it takes or else... bye-bye mr. Moore. 

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