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We've come a long way, baby

posted by Zed on June 4 2005 06:58

A long way from mechanical relays and vacuum tubes, that is. A Canadian research team has made a single molecule transistor.

While a computer using this new technology is at least a decade away, Wolkow said his team’s discovery could eventually mean computers will run much faster using only one-millionth the power of conventional computers.

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