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Cyber-era research. New type/faster smaller cheaper to mass produce by any old shop soon to hit the market place. Bye, bye good jobs.
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/8219/20130929/first-bizarre-3mm-chip-revolutionize-time-spac-ten-times-faster.htm
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Are you saying that the technology in the article relates in any way to chips such as processors, DRAM and flash memory?
CK_John
(10,005 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)I work in the industry. The items in the article pertain to the acceleration of electrons for applications related to particle research. They in no way are applicable to the highly specialized circuitry found on logic and memory IC's. Any jobs that these might eventually replace would be those related to the engineering and construction of particle accelerators or "colliders", and I wouldn't be hurrying to update my resume immediately if I worked in that industry based on this story.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)will be quickly transfered to consumer products.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)There are more things in the pipeline to come that will increase memory density and performance, but I hardly think Intel, Samsung, Micron and others are quivering in their fab booties over this.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Almost entirely from moving the manufacturing to massive fabs in Singapore and elsewhere where costs are much lower.
Your concern seems to be entirely based upon the supposition that a chip is a chip is a chip, with no idea how a memory cell is structured or how it would be built using the above tech. If it were deemed to have that potential, I'm sure that would have been the focus of the article or at least a note of interest.
But I'll clean out my desk tomorrow morning and take a look at jobs.com just to be safe.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)It's laser etched.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)This chip is not going to replace an accelerator anytime soon.