Moore's law extension.

[Deviant]

Interesting new about Moores law, a new process could replace the current proces of making processors, and give us small, faster processors for a lot longer to come.

Read on here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2053000/2053539.stm

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Sounds interesting. Wonder if anything will actually come of it though?

[Nebulus]

Simple fact is they gotta or no more cpu's wont get very much faster and bye bye dreams of real nano technology cos the cpus will not fast enough to controll anything

[paul rhee]

maybe a time to change my signature..

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Originally posted by paul rhee
maybe a time to change my signature..

Maybe... mwahahah :D

[KingJackal]

...I don't see how that helps at all with breaking Moores law.

Chips 1/10th the size? That's impressive, but given the same basic process they use now has gone from 0.5 ( and higher ) to around 0.09, 1/10th again will probably just extend Moores Law for another few decades.

Meh! But who knows? :confused:

[Deviant]

Originally posted by KingJackal
...I don't see how that helps at all with breaking Moores law.

Chips 1/10th the size? That's impressive, but given the same basic process they use now has gone from 0.5 ( and higher ) to around 0.09, 1/10th again will probably just extend Moores Law for another few decades.

Meh! But who knows? :confused:

That's why I said an extension to Mores Law in the thread title. Maybe they were over the top, they said "maybe beat it", but that would be impossible wouldn't it.

[Gh0s7 L3mUr]

Not neccessarily impossible just very very difficult.

[varkk]

Well every new break through in chip manufacturing is hailed as going to break Moores law, but it always averages out back to it in the end,

[Deviant]

Originally posted by Gh0s7 L3mUr
Not neccessarily impossible just very very difficult.

beat it? I don't think so. There's always another process, but physics is physics. A physical limit has to be reached eventually as how can you make an interconnect smaller than 1 atom?

[mird-OC]

well you can go much smaller than an atom (and no one really knows how small yet) ;)

but like what was said above who knows what the future holds... i believe the current mentality surrounding chip design is the biggest barrier. currently it's too expensive and too risky to think outside the square, but it'll happen sooner or later.

[varkk]

I remember reading an article on quantum computing a few years ago, where the author talked about thte potential power in such a device(essentially a box of hot photons), he then used moore's law to predict when we would see one on the desktop, I can't remeber how far away it was, but I wouldn't hold my breath

[Stove]

They've already developed 1-atom transistors in the lab:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June02/McEuen.transistor.deb.html

Next trick is going quantum, yeah :-)
May wait till they come out before I upgrade. . . . . .
;)