Nano circuit offers big promise

[freakazoid]

Nano circuit offers big promise...

The first computer circuit to be built on a single molecule has been unveiled by researchers in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4839088.stm

[Zzyzx]

"Using this setup, the researchers showed they could achieve a speed of 50 megahertz, hundreds of times slower than the gigahertz speeds of silicon processors seen in most personal computers."

50 Megahertz? On an 18-micrometer-long chip? That's pretty damn impressive! It doesn't seem that long ago that 66 & 33 mhz 486's ruled the world, but those processors were no where near this small.

[freakazoid]

"Using this setup, the researchers showed they could achieve a speed of 50 megahertz, hundreds of times slower than the gigahertz speeds of silicon processors seen in most personal computers."

50 Megahertz? On an 18-micrometer-long chip? That's pretty damn impressive! It doesn't seem that long ago that 66 & 33 mhz 486's ruled the world, but those processors were no where near this small.

Computers planted in your brain, not far off, man!

[Brains_Behind_Operation]

Well they better hurry up with that cause I've wanted to be a cyborg all my life!

[freakazoid]

Well they better hurry up with that cause I've wanted to be a cyborg all my life!
Resistence is futile!

[General Septem]

I don't think a carbon nanotube is equal in size to a molecule; that would be impossible. But still extremely small. :P