Sing Atom Transistor discovered. Just in time for Moore.

[d_stilgar]

Read the article here (http://www.tkk.fi/en/current_affairs/news/view/yhden_atomin_transistori_loydetty/).

[NightrainSrt4]

Interesting. I'd like to read the entire (original piece) article, but I know so much would go right over my head, lol.

[mDust]

That's amazing. At this point I really feel sorry for the manufacturers...I can hear them all in unison, "We have to build what?!?"
And every electron lines up to pass through the 1 atom...talk about energy efficiency!

So when can we expect this tech on the market? 2010 Q2?:D

[Kayin]

Screw yuo, Moore!!!!

[DaveW]

Moores law will eventually break, but this will not be it. The exact quote:


The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.

Or, to paraphrase, the number of transistors the can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years (some say 18 months, it's another argument).

Making a single transistor this small doesn't break the law. When we can fill a chip with these, we're still not screwed; there's optical chips, which can theoretically be more complex than an equivalent single-atom IC, and then after that there's quantum computing. Moore's law will outlive the 80 year old Moore, and it's not going to stop anytime soon.

-Dave