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[url]http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3467491[/url]
[quote]Researchers at HP (Quote, Chart) have come up with a new signal technology they claim could replace transistors in computers one day.
In a paper published in Tuesday's Journal of Applied Physics, three members of HP Labs' Quantum Science Research (QSR) group demonstrated what they call a "crossbar latch."
A latch consists of a single wire acting as a signal line, crossed by two control lines with an electrically switchable nanoscale junction where they intersect. The technology is so small, HP claims thousands of the strands could fit across the diameter of a human hair. [/quote]
[quote]Researchers at HP (Quote, Chart) have come up with a new signal technology they claim could replace transistors in computers one day.
In a paper published in Tuesday's Journal of Applied Physics, three members of HP Labs' Quantum Science Research (QSR) group demonstrated what they call a "crossbar latch."
A latch consists of a single wire acting as a signal line, crossed by two control lines with an electrically switchable nanoscale junction where they intersect. The technology is so small, HP claims thousands of the strands could fit across the diameter of a human hair. [/quote]
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If you build a neat, cute and sociable Culture drone, doom is not inevitable. :p
What I like *besides* the miniaturization part... is that people are working on fault-tolerant system architectures. Chips which don't fail when their first component fails, but have a certain tolerance.
[url]http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/feature_stories/2005/05crossbar.html[/url]
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Ah yes... One of my old favorite Hobbyist electronics devices...
The Flip-Flop...
:)