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Questioning the limits of Moore’s law
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30 minutes
Released:
Jul 28, 2021
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Visit https://thermofisher.com/bctl to register for your free Bringing Chemistry to Life T-shirt and https://www.alfa.com/en/chemistry-podcasts/ to access our episode summary sheet, which contains links to recent publications and additional content recommendations for our guest.The unstoppable progress in computational power that we have experienced in the last few decades, and that has changed the world as we know it, is almost entirely due to the relentless efforts of cramming an increasing number of transistors in microprocessors. Moore’s law, predicting a linear increase in microchip transistor density, doubling every two years, has been consistently proven right, but we are now approaching physical limitations as resolution breaking the 5 nm barrier is quickly approaching molecular dimensions. This is why many think Moore’s law is dead and this is why Rudy Wojtecki and the conventions-challenging teams at IBM Almaden Research Center are working on developing new paradigms for the computers of the future.Rudy is a polymer chemist by background and a true multidisciplinary scientist at heart. His work on self-assembling polymers and surface chemistry is innovating the way microchips are manufactured, and the way research is done at Almaden is providing a brilliant example of different scientific disciplines working together to accelerate progress.
Released:
Jul 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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