Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:46:00 04/20/05
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On April 20, 2005 at 05:32:24, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On April 20, 2005 at 02:48:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 20, 2005 at 01:35:32, Robin Smith wrote: >> >>>On April 18, 2005 at 21:05:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>I doubt very much if Moore's law will quit in less than 100 years. >>> >>>You can't be serious. >> >>Serious as cancer. >> >>Not that we'll be using ICs in 100 years. They will look like relays would look >>today for a computing machine, I am sure. > >Moore's law has to do with feature size and if you do a calculation assuming >Moore's law holds out for 100 years, you will perhaps determine the feature size >to be smaller than a quark, which is rather improbable. Currently, ICs have two dimentions. If you move to another dimention, you gain a lot more real estate. >What is relevant is function and capacity. For example, moving from base 2 logic >to base 4 would double function and capacity while leaving feature size the >same. BTW, isn't DNA base 4? If so, not an unreasonable idea I would say. I saw an analysis once that said base e was the densest possible storage. Base 3 is closer than base 4, so it might be more dense. Can't say for sure, as I do not recall the analysis exactly. It should be easy enough to create base 3 circuits, since you would have +, 0 and - as natural states.
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