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Can our computers continue to get smaller and more powerful? |
August 15, 2014
From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstream, radically transforming industry, commerce, entertainment and governance while shrinking to become ubiquitous handheld portals to the world. But with miniature computer processors now containing millions of closely-packed transistor components of near atomic size, chip designers are facing both engineering and fundamental limits that have become barriers to the continued improvement of computer performance.
Link: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/computers_math/computer_science/~3/tRzzMGpNO_g/140813174447.htm
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