moore\’s law
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Moore’s Law Might Actually Last Another 75 Years
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | Moore’s Law is mention anytime there’s an advancement in processing speeds, and that may keep happening for another 75 years. Physicists are speculating that, assuming Moore was right, we’ll max out on processing speed at that point. More »
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Nanowires Making Gadgets Smaller And Faster
9:20AM Joanna Stern | Computers have been getting shrinking for years, yet they cram the same amount of power if not more. Essentially that is Moore’s Law, or the theory that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubles a year. More »
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Scientist’s Flying Plasmonic Lens Could Make Chips Ten Times Denser
8:05PM Kit Eaton | Optical lithography is the secret sauce in the fabbing technology that makes the chips inside your computer, and a clever bunch at the University of California, Berkeley have worked out a new adaptation of the tech to produce chips that could be ten times more detailed. It basically combines a hard-disk-alike spinning platter and scanning head with a metal lens to focus UV light onto smaller spots: by rotating a chemically treated silicon wafer beneath the head, you can achieve far more precise chips than using a photo mask.
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