Friday, March 18, 2005

Interview with Gordon Moore

Short interview with Gordon Moore (he of "Moores Law", the extrapolated observation that the power of computers doubles every 18 months). He is sceptical about the use of alternatives to silicon as computational substrates, pointing out that mass production of nanotube transistors may prove to be difficult. Of course, the first transistor was a massive, cobbled-together beast of a thing, so I'm not sure of the utility of such observations.

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