Submitted by An international research team from University College London’s Centre for Nanotechnology has developed a ceramic material that could result in fundamental changes to technology. The material can be used in the creation of self-assembled circuit boards with various layers being insulated from each other by just a few atoms dramatically reducing processor size requirements.
IBM has been producing highly integrated “System on a Chip” designs for quite some time now. Granted, this may take things to the next level, but what is going to happen that hasn’t happened already?
How can you be so blasé about taking things to the next level? The fact that devlopers have been able to keep advancing at the Moore’s Law rate for so many years is nothing short of phenomenal.
And now we are talking about self-assembled circuit boards. I don’t even know what that means, but if it really results in dramatically reducing processor size requirements, even after all these years of already drastic reductions–we I’m very impressed.
And now we are talking about self-assembled circuit boards. I don’t even know what that means,
It doesn’t mean anything and it has nothing to do with what the researchers have developed.
The biggest reason there hasn’t been much progress in 3d circuit layout, despite the massive research done in the field, has been heat dissipation. You think it’s hard when most of your heat is generated near the surface of a device? Imagine what it’s like in a device that has a packing density that 3d can allow.
Nanotube heat pipes?
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2005/20051205-…
geee….. the fact that this removes all problems with electron leakage (the major problem with chip design today and the cause of the incredible heat problem) kinda important.
Sounds like research at Cyberdyne in Terminator 2. But seriously, it sounds quite cool, and I hope it turns out to be viable.
I think the nano industry is really where the silicon industry was in the early 60s just before Kilby & Noyce figured out how to build a monolithic transistor device and passive components and also how to connect them up. I really suspect it will be another 20-40 years before silicon could be replaced by nano and we need some major breakthroughs in working structures.
Since you mentioned it, I went and had a look to see if the Cyberdyne domains are taken. The com is under construction perhaps by a domain speculator, the org is in some private use. Thats the trouble with movies, all the good names get taken so I don’t suppose we have to worry about Teminators from Cyberdyne corp.
Nanotechnology for computer is like James Watson/Francis Crick for medicine (they discovered the DNA); it will not unleash merely new products but it will unleash a whole new industry and sciences. Maybe with such technology the dream towards other technologies will come soon (like Zero Point Energy, AntiMatter Production, antigravity Propulsion).