Moore’s law left intact

Moore’s law is saved by a group of scientists who has found a new way how to pack transistors even more. They use a new carving technique that makes these tiny tiny features in silicon that are many times smaller than a wavelength of the light used to make them.

The new approach produces grids of parallel lines just 25 nanometers wide using light with a wavelength of 351 nm. The grids are not functional circuits but could be made into working chips by adding extra small features.

Does this mean that in near future (2 year time) there will still not exist super fast quantum pc or pc that was using optics instead of usual processors (can’t find it anywhere anymore or I have misremembered the technique). Gosh I hoped that we are going to be exempted from the Moore’s law sooner.

But such news’ is good, because pc’s will still be evolving understandably and predictably and our pc’s standing at home or work won’t age instantly.

Info from newscientist.com, engadget.com, howstuffworks.com.

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Understand chemistry?

At localized magazine Illustrated Science issue 07/2008 I found a small tiny article.

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It told that there is a web page which helps in an easy way to perceive and understand a chemistry and its formulas.

Momentary I thanked those bright minds of helping a noob and others like me, visually explain and understanding this arduous science.

But, oh god when I saw the page and went through a tutorial I understood that this is no place for chemistry noobs. Sadly, but you have to have some idea what you see and have to draw.

So, we have deducted that if you understand chemistry you can visit this page and it will visually explain how the reaction on paper happen step by step.

There are quite many reactions but only a few are easier than others and I didn’t understand a thing.

Still hoping for a super noob chemistry page explaining it easy. I have already finished high school with a grade D in Chemistry some time ago but seeing this understood nothing, I mean NOTHING.

Maybe there are few of you who finds this useful.

Browsing the page more I understood that this explaining is done for the undergraduates and this research is owned by Oxford University and at this page there are more of virtual chemistry.

ps. Maybe there is a language barrier because I have not learnt chemistry in English and even more I am not an undergraduate at chemistry.