Forget silicon and return to valves
@ 2016/06/09Boffins looking for ways around Moore’s Law have decided that transistors are a bad idea and they need to go back to the vacuum tubes – read valves – of the early computers.
Of course, the vacuum tubes are a little smaller than those used in the codebreaking WW2 computers – those under development at Caltech’s Nanofabrication Group are a million times smaller.
Of course, the vacuum tubes are a little smaller than those used in the codebreaking WW2 computers – those under development at Caltech’s Nanofabrication Group are a million times smaller.