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Published online 9 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011115-1
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A little logic goes a long way
Ultra-minaturized electrical components could shrink supercomputers.
Researchers in the Netherlands and the United States have constructed simple computer circuits with electrical components many times smaller than those on commercial silicon chips1,2. These ultra-minaturized logic circuits hold out the prospect of hand-held computers as powerful as today's state-of-the-art supercomputers.
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