Nanotech turns twenty
NANOTECHNOLOGY turned 20 today.
According to IBM, one of its top boffins Don Eigler kick-started the whole thing by using a custom built microscope to jiggle an atom.
Two months later he spelt out the letters IBM using 35 very annoyed xenon atoms. Later the atoms went on to star in celebrity Big Brother where they were thrown out after audiences didn't think they were stable.
T.C. Chen, IBM Fellow and vice president, Science and Technology, IBM Research indicated that Don Eigler's demonstration of the ability to jiggle the atom was one of the most important breakthroughs in nanoscience and technology.
He said something like jiggling atoms is the kind of research that will eventually take us beyond Moore's Law, to advance computing to handle the massive volumes of data in the world while using less energy resources.
Nanotechnology is now a wide-ranging field, with applications in medicine, space travel, computers, and energy production.
In 20 years it has gone from jiggling atoms about a bit and molecular graffiti to special fabrics and a fear that it might give us all cancer. A lot of investors also think that the next big thing will be very small. µ
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Mine do the Hokey Pokey
I said, "what's it all about?"
To Start, Let me State Letting Go of Florence Here Was Maybe Dumber Than Letting Go of Mike, although Mike Cover future, florence ALWAYS Has Deep Handle on Present.
Today Florence got Picture of Nvidias new GT300 GPU. Looking like 16 Duos Hanging on thread, in neat lines of 8:
Interestingly,it is marked "GF100",which should be the fourth codename.Yesterday reports that it was named Fermi. GF100 perhaps represents GeForce Fermi 100?
GF could Be Glo Flo? Huummmm.GloFlo Model 1. GlofloTsmc.GT.????
Now lets have a look at last modified date of September 27th, 2009.You can see "x × GT200 stream output buffer" ,which means several times of GT200 on the right corner.
"3.xB transistors, 40nm @ TSMC" undoubtedly tells us that GT300 is based on TSMC 40nm process and have over 3 billion transistors.While AMD Cypress only has 2.15billion transistors.(Take Dat Madati)If their core area is proportional,GT300 is speculated to have about 500 square millimeter,smaller than GT200.
There is no detailed architecture.However,it is likely to have six memory controller,equivalent of 348-bit memory interface.Black area should be a cluster of ROP unit.
The largest blue region is SIMD / MIMD,which is divided into two rows with a total of 16 parts?@duo ea?=32 Total?,greatly different from GT200.This also confirms that GT300 will have a major architecture change.
This still awaits voles Fishbarrel multi core O/S & Intel released 80 CORE white paper/cpu in 2007 as 80 Core minimum standard, That being ~1800 to 2100 Active Pins.
Rumours of Processor that will replace conroe StepUp are on wind since yesterday, so Winter spring or just Fall over Halloweenie question. When & What will ALl this Mean. Cetainly theres NO Known 1800 Active Pin Procs & FishKettle Is still diagram, so maybe next years late samples might anticapate movement off Power Bar & into Intregated Multi core in both O/S & CG pu.
vondrashek
That really makes nanoscience easier to
understand.
Love.