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Article: IBM labs make atomic data transfer possible.(Technology Information)
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- Network World
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- February 7, 2000
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SAN JOSE - IBM may have licked some of the complications of Moore's law.
That informal statute, laid down by one of Intel's fathers, stipulates that chip power will double every 18 months or so while the chip size shrinks. Moore has been more or less correct for the past 45 years, which has led to ever smaller computing devices. But as the circuitry on chips shrinks deeper into the microscopic, and eventually to atomic sizes, researchers have begun hitting a wall. The wires that connect these circuits stop conducting the electrons with the same predictability as they did when they were larger, IBM says.
So, some IBM researchers have a new potential new ...