>Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 16:27:30 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>Subject: NEWS: Intel invents beakthrough in transistor design
>This is *real* news -- signs of the singularity type news...
>Intel has come up with a new transistor architecture that
>may promise terahertz clock speeds (Cough... Not with
>a traditional chip architecture because the clock can't
>propagate across the chip! At any rate...)
>They do appear to have broken through several barriers
>including reduced leakage current (keeps the chips cooler)
>and a new insulating material (which was one of the
>"show-stoppers" people were fearing for Moore's Law).
>Here is the article:
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/reuters_wire/1679124l.htm
>If the "cloning" article is any indication, at least 3 other
>people will submit this "NEWS" to the Extropian list over
>the next 2 days.
>You heard it here first!
>Robert
>------------------------------
Saw this on our internal news first, but I now have to shoot you all for
telling you this....Wonder if the 'RA can loan me a decomish Armalite....
Still, you did post it here first, Robert :)
James....
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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