Self-Assembling Chips Could Push Production Limits

[Guest]

Researchers have found a way to enable the creation of circuitry with self-assembling rectangles.

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[MaxTesla]

Skynet Skynet Skynet

We are all going to die.

 

[Onus]

Now all we need to do is engineer a bacterium to poop out this stuff. Hmmm, didn't Michael Crichton already describe something like this?

 

[Albyint]

First we have self repairing nano circuitry demoed last year, then those little atom bots that continually add to themselves to make themselves more efficient, now we have self building computer chips. This does mean our cyber overlords are nearing completion!

All hail the Oligarchy of Steel! >_>

 

[f-14]

tick tock and moore's law.
god forbid that this process gets patented and stolen by apple, samsung, blah blah blah kevin parrish and douglas perry will have a collective apoplexy with their communist/borg approach to technology.

had to tweak their noses, they do deserve it.

 

[supall]

Moore's law continues...!

I'm starting to think MIT is controlled by some sort of complex AI that is steering the course to robot domination with all of their inventions.

 

[Guest]

The cybernetic overlords must be created, for Science!

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]jtt283[/nom]Now all we need to do is engineer a bacterium to poop out this stuff. Hmmm, didn't Michael Crichton already describe something like this?[/citation]

Last year or so, a group of researchers got some algae specie similar to Coccolithophore to build a microchip die into their shells. Once the algae dies off, you harvest the shells.

I wonder if calcium compounds are going to affect the transistors though.

 

[deksman]

[citation][nom]MaxTesla[/nom]Skynet Skynet SkynetWe are all going to die.[/citation]

What the frack is with people making these idiotic claims that computers are going to take over and kill us?
Oh right... its a byproduct of BAD hollywood movies that deal in fantasy and not science.

For the love of man people, show some capacity for critical thinking and stop projecting movies into reality.

 

[deksman]

[citation][nom]supall[/nom]Moore's law continues...!I'm starting to think MIT is controlled by some sort of complex AI that is steering the course to robot domination with all of their inventions.[/citation]

Lol...
Moore's law is nothing more than a business model that caters to capitalism and profits... apart from that, it has NOTHING to do with our technical capability or efficiency because we already had the ability to produce much more powerful, faster, fully upgradeable, extremely efficient computers since (at least) 1997.

I'm amazed at how people have the capacity to think that what we see in the market today (planned obsolescence) is the 'best' what we can do (far from it).

 

[RipperjackAU]

You know where this is all going to end up?

 

[verbalizer]

OK but didn't AMD go fully automated (production) with the FX-Bulldozer.?
see where that got them..

 

[JerryC]

[citation][nom]urban legend[/nom]OK but didn't AMD go fully automated (production) with the FX-Bulldozer.?see where that got them..[/citation]

That wasnt because of the automation, thats all due to the poor design.

 

[verbalizer]

That wasnt because of the automation, thats all due to the poor design.

I know, just being the usual sarcastic arse that I am...

 

[husker]

[citation][nom]deksman[/nom]What the frack is with people making these idiotic claims that computers are going to take over and kill us?Oh right... its a byproduct of BAD hollywood movies that deal in fantasy and not science.For the love of man people, show some capacity for critical thinking and stop projecting movies into reality.[/citation]
Which is exactly what I'd expect a malicious a.i. to tell us.

 

[superp]

so from then on, a computer virus could finally kill people...

 

[Guest]

Deksman . . . if you can't tell we're being sarcastic and making jest, I think you should be sacrificed to the cyberlords. Srsly. Especially after going through the trouble to downrate everyone who made such comments, really man.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]JerryC[/nom]That wasnt because of the automation, thats all due to the poor design.[/citation]It's really not a horrible design, it just isn't ideal for typical consumer usage. It has its strengths in other markets. Although even in the PC arena, with some tweaking it is already much better. Piledriver plus L3 and higher clocks would give the FX lineup quite a decent boost over existing BD chips.

 

[deksman]

[citation][nom]TeholHi[/nom]Deksman . . . if you can't tell we're being sarcastic and making jest, I think you should be sacrificed to the cyberlords. Srsly. Especially after going through the trouble to downrate everyone who made such comments, really man.[/citation]

I'm sick and tired of listening and reading those types of comments from people because they only do more harm than good (even if its meant as a joke).

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

Well didn't Ray Kurzweil say something about some point of time in the future, which he calls the singularity, when the most powerful supercomputer will be fully designed and built by the previous most powerful supercomputer, and this process will then keep repeating in a runaway loop?