Computers as thin as air!

NY Times article

[lorax]

Computers once filled entire rooms, then sat in the closet, moved to our desks, and now nestle in our pockets. Soon, the computer may become invisible to us, hiding away in everyday objects.

... Hewlett-Packard scientists said they had begun commercializing a Lilliputian switch that is a simpler — and potentially smaller — alternative to the transistor that has been the Valley’s basic building block for the last half-century.

source: [nytimes.com...]

[lammert]

It's amazing how things miniaturize in computers. My first computer had a 5,25" hard disk storing the incredible amount of 20 megabytes. Now my cell phone uses a micro SD chip of just a few square mm, storing almost 1000 times that amount. If you look at the storage to weight ratio between the two devices, that is something like a 1:1,000,000 reduction in just twenty years.

[vik_c]

I've always been intrigued by the number of transistors they manage to pack in. They're smaller than specks of dust and continue to follow Moore's law! Now something comes along that's smaller than transistors. Truly amazing!

[lorax]

>> 1:1,000,000 reduction in just twenty years

and the timeline keeps getting shorter!