HP Breaking the Law – Moore’s Law That Is |
Hewlett-Packard, these days better known for printers than innovation, has announced a breakthrough in chip manufacturing. The new process allows for eight times more gates to be put on each chip while simultaneously cutting power consumption. The nanotechnology also allows for higher fault tolerance and even possible reprogramming of chips even after the parts are installed in consumer electronics.
HP Labs researchers, Greg Snider and Stan Williams, published the news in published in Nanotechnology, a journal of the British Institute of Physics.
The advance allows more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to be packed into a chip. FPGAs are similar to regular logic gates except they can also handle more complex operations. For those of you that didn’t have a computer architecture class, logic gates are the basic building blocks of a computer’s …




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