[extropy-chat] diffraction limit

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:07:52AM +0200, scerir wrote:
> From: "Dan Clemmensen" 
> 
> > >http://www.intel.com/research/documents/Bourianoff-Proc-IEEE-Limits.pdf
> 
> > Thanks! Very interesting paper.
> 
> There is a comment, on it, here 
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5112061.html
> by Paolo Gargini (Intel Co.)
> (I had no time to read it though).

Given that we have working spintronics and molecular transistors the article
says that certain (accustomed) ways of things won't work. Well, duh. Many
people tried to prematurely bury Moore, so far unsuccessfully.

Moore's law will tank eventually, but I'm putting that limit at about mole amount
of switches (not transistors) -- a litre of circuitry, or so.

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