Silicon Is Slow. / Daniel Tynan.
by Tynan, Daniel; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 73Science. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2002ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Integrated circuits | Molecular computers | Molecular electronics | Nanotechnology | Quantum computers | Silicon | Technological forecasting | Technological innovationsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The goal: Computers millions of times faster. The research into single-molecule transistors, DNA strands, and quantum effects provides tantalizing clues." (POPULAR SCIENCE) The author contends that "dozens of research teams around the world are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into proving that computing at very small scales holds unique promise...What they seek are computational devices that leapfrog over problems inherent in the 'classical' chip-based computer.".
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Originally Published: Silicon Is Slow, June 2002; pp. 54-59.
"The goal: Computers millions of times faster. The research into single-molecule transistors, DNA strands, and quantum effects provides tantalizing clues." (POPULAR SCIENCE) The author contends that "dozens of research teams around the world are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into proving that computing at very small scales holds unique promise...What they seek are computational devices that leapfrog over problems inherent in the 'classical' chip-based computer.".
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