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12 Aug 2024 21:22:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: hypothetical question...  
From: Stephen Lavedas
Date: 8 Feb 1999 19:53:00
Message: <36BF8707.500843F5@virginia.edu>
Yeah, that problem with wavelengths reaching magnitudes less than the
size of the electrons being moved (or at least too close to be usable)
it should actually be getting quite difficult very soon.

Steve


Markus Becker wrote:
> 
> portelli wrote:
> >
> > Hasn't Moore's Law already been broken?
> 
> No, it still holds. Perhaps you meant what I mistakenly
> wrote ;-). Not the processor _speed_ but the number of
> transistors doubles every 18 months. Together with the
> MHz increase this more than doubles the speed of the
> processors. And, as far as what I have read, it will
> go on until approx. 2015, then it will reach some
> principal problem concerning quantum physics.
> But the cute technicians at <insert_favourate_manufacturer
> here> will have invented some new technique to keep
> Moore's law going...
> 
> Markus
> 
> --

>  Ich nicht eine Sekunde!!!" H. Heinol in Val Thorens


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