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It appears as if Charles Babbage was right all along... researchers have outlined a mechanical microchip build using nano sized components (billionths of a meter wide).
This was inspired by the 19th Century designs for a mechanical computer, designed by an English mathematician, Charles Babbage.
"What we are proposing is a new type of computing architecture that is only based on nano-mechanical elements," said Professor Robert Blick of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the journal paper.
We are not going to compete with high-speed silicon, but where we are competitive is for all of those mundane applications where you need microprocessors which can be slow and cheap as well."
Read the full article here.
This was inspired by the 19th Century designs for a mechanical computer, designed by an English mathematician, Charles Babbage.
"What we are proposing is a new type of computing architecture that is only based on nano-mechanical elements," said Professor Robert Blick of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the journal paper.
We are not going to compete with high-speed silicon, but where we are competitive is for all of those mundane applications where you need microprocessors which can be slow and cheap as well."
Read the full article here.
