A group of experts in Australia and the United States have built the world's smallest possible transistor. The device is basically a single-atom. The achievement proves that Moore's Law of miniaturization can be bypassed.
The transistor is made up of a single phosphorous atom, and was developed by experts... |
20 February 2012
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Moore's Law has practically dictated the development of newer and better processors, particularly the advancement to the next manufacturing process, but a certain natural disaster might just compromise it.One might say that there are two big problems with natural disasters, and those that they are most unpredic... |
22 March 2011
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TSMC and Globalfoundries have both scrapped their respective share of processing nodes and decided to jump directly to smaller technologies, such as 22nm or 20nm. This is necessary in order to keep up with Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two... |
3 May 2010
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In a 1965 scientific paper, Intel Co-founder Gordon E. Moore wrote that the number of transistors that could inexpensively be placed on a computer chip would double about once every two years. Until now, this prediction – which came to be known as Moore's Law – has held true, but the technology emplo... |
23 December 2009
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Moore's Law has been the sacred rule of the computing hardware industry since its announcement in 1965. Basically, it states that the number of transistors in an average processor, for example, will increase exponentially, with the number doubling once every two years. However, it has been known that the pace of... |
24 July 2009
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Moore's Law was first used to predict the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated circuit, and argued that their number would grow exponentially over time. Indeed, current trends show that twice as many transistors can be placed on the same circuit in an interval of approximately 18 months. Now, newl... |
15 January 2009
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Scientists from the McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, believe they have stumbled upon a novel state of matter while experimenting with electron crystals, like those found in regular transistors. Using powerful magnetism and extremely low temperatures, they caused the bidimensional crystal to act very od... |
23 October 2008
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The next generation of powerful computers is just around the corner, claims a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently developed a new technique that would allow semiconductor manufacturers to integrate even more transistors on silicon chips. By using light with a wavelength... |
10 July 2008
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Moore's law accurately predicted computing power evolution for the last four decades, but in several years or so, maybe less than two decades, it will no longer be able to do so, unless the silicon material used to fabricate computer chips is soon replaced. Moore's law basically states that the number of tr... |
18 April 2008
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Flash memory is a non volatile memory device that is capable of storing information even after the power source is removed. While the end effect is the same, long-term data storage, flash memories work on a very different principle than other non-volatile storage devices like tapes, optical media and hard disk drives... |
18 August 2007
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Moore's Law, getting more and more transistors in a computer chip and getting out as much performance as possible, was the driving force behind the computer hardware industry for a number of years now. One problem that the whole CMOS based hardware manufacturers face is that they are reaching the limits of the m... |
13 August 2007
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