[extropy-chat] Radio chip antenna

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:04 PM 5/17/2004 +0100, BillK wrote:

>Anybody seen a Singularity approaching recently?

Not the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/17/business/17intel.html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=

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<The principal challenge confronting chip makers today is that the current 
leakage inside chips has accelerated with each generation of ever smaller 
transistors.

"Classical scaling is dead," said Bernard S. Meyerson, chief technologist 
for I.B.M.'s systems and technology group. "In the past, the way everyone 
made chips faster was to simply shrink them."

Today, however, transistors have shrunk so radically that in the most 
crucial places they are no more than five or six layers of atoms thick. As 
a result, they have become increasingly porous, permitting electric current 
- and heat - to cascade out even when they are switched off.>
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Old news here. Still.

Damien Broderick