Intel identifies silicon dioxide successor for chips, due in 2007

[Q Classic]

obviously one who doesn't get much time on the supercomputers.

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Scientists use supercomputers.

Scientists don't on the whole use supercomputers. They only do for really intensive things like lattice gauge theory. Even sophisticated computer simulations for the big particle colliders are run on PCs.

It seems to me though that a lot more effort could go into making decent C++ compilers. We particle physicists often have programs which were originally written in Fortran77, but have been added to and 'evolved' over the years. There is some effort to turn them into C++ code (for compatibility issues and modularization), but even with severe streamlining of the code the C++ compilers take so unbelievably long and take up huge amounts of memory.

There is no point in having fast processors if we are going to write bloatware.

[Q Classic]

that's 'cause c++ sucks.

ML all the way, man.

[yavoon]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


Not when they can be mass produced. You should read your Wired magazine more. Two American firms have learn how to produce gem quality stones for dollars a carat. The second firm is trying to build diamond wafers specifically for use in circuitry, and despite yavoon's claim, they're not that far from acheiving the level they want.

care to wager? one guy who has the real good technique using chemical deposition has it pattented(or pending?). either way. he is the owner of the technique. and as such u can't have a mad dash race to it.

secondly they are not even close to making diamond WAFERS in mass production as the plan is to finance their silicon replacement dreams by selling more normal diamonds.

seeing as they haven't gotten to stage 1 and one guy owns the rights to the process and the technology involved in making diamond wafers in ur next dell. this is still quite far off.

but if u disagree we can make it a bet.

[Dr Strangelove]

When I first glanced at this thread I thought the title said "Sulfer dioxide". I thought to myself: "Now there's a computer that really stinks!"

[Rogan Josh]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
ML all the way, man.

What's 'ML'?

[DaShi]

I'm a Joe User and I think that more MHz is better.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
If you give up SiO₂, you might as well switch to GaAs or GaN.

I hope so - that's part of my PhD project - polycrystalline GaN fabrication.

Of course all of this will shortly be obsolete when we discover the secrets of spintronic materials and they have to design all new quantum computers.

And the only scientists who use supercomputers are the wuss theoreticians who calculate band structures instead of actually designing an experiment.

[Q Classic]

ml is:

http://www.smlnj.org/