Re: Nanotech & how to prepare for the future

From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 02:02:48 MST


Adrian Tymes wrote:

> * Come up with designs for a x86-compatible processor and motherboard -
> not necessarily fast, not necessarily Pentium-compatible (386 should
> be sufficient), but two layers at most - and print it on some plastic
> a la the printable PC research at MIT. Emphasis here is that the
> circuit still works even with minor (~ 1 mm) holes and rips.
> Possibly use insane amounts of parallel processing (since "chip" real
> estate is relatively cheap) to help mitigate speed issues brought on
> by large feature size (at 100 MHz, even light can only travel 3
> meters per cycle, counting all the circuit traces would have to go
> through; if each feature is, say, 2 mm wide, then that's at most
> 1500 gates even if one could put them right next to each other, and
> that's not even accounting for memory latency).



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