Different types and ways to make processors.

[Zero Plasma]

Just wanted to make a thread about the different posible ways to make processors.
Two interesting ways I know of are:
1.Making a chip with carbon on a artificial diamond, so that the carbon conducts and the diamond is there for heat.
2.I think it was electron linked computers, not 100% sure.
Please post the way's you know of.
😛

 

[The J]

http://www.wired.com/wired/arc...;topic=&topic_set=

That's an article I read in Wired about the making of artificial diamonds. It also explains how those diamonds can be used in semi-conductors since they have a very high heat threshold. The process for putting them in chips is similar to the process of putting diamond dust on tool bits.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

good article. wonder how long it is before we see these in chips. doesn't seem that hard cause all they should have to do is replace the silicon with diamond wafers once they get the doping to work the same

 

[mattg1981]

Kinda OT but what about DNA computers?

 

[Zero Plasma]

DNA computer?Care to elaborate?

 

[mattg1981]

for how bad of a layout this site is, it is pretty informative.

DNA computers are multiple times faster than the worlds fastest supercomputers .... but they can only do limited mathamatical algorithms

edit: whoops, forgot the site

 

Don't you mean cell based processors? Or am I thinking of something else?

 

[Vee]

It's quite possible to make single-molecule diodes and transistors by chemical means. I don't know exactly whether it was diodes or transistors, but it has already been done.

Connecting them is the big problem. This has been done too, for testing. Cutting stencils with electron beams. Then using the stencil to beam gold atoms onto an extremely cold receptor to form the conducting circuits. Then the molecular semiconductors are sucked down someway, where the distance is correct, and welded in place with electricity.

This is far too difficult and chancy for production purposes. Currently there is some work on an idea of having oil carry gold atoms, and form the circuitry by something resembling lithography.

These molecular semiconductors are 3nm long and less than 1nm wide.

I don't know terribly much about this, but I thought I should mention it anyway,

 

[tinyabs]

Originally posted by: mattg1981
for how bad of a layout this site is, it is pretty informative.

DNA computers are multiple times faster than the worlds fastest supercomputers .... but they can only do limited mathamatical algorithms

edit: whoops, forgot the site

That will be a massively parallel computer, something like quantum computing.