Moore's Law Finally Hits Its End?

[raptor]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/scientists-buil.html

Looks like they finally went as small as you can with a circuit.  The width of one atom.  Beyond this I suppose you would need to go subatomic (dunno if thats possible or not), or things such as optical processors or quantum computing.

Scott

[raptor]

On a side note, I have officially beat Shaun in post count.  Muwahahhahaha.......

Next, world domination.

[bandyguy]

I think they are getting some headway with the quantum http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Develop+Basic+Building+Block+for+Quantum+Computers/article11432.htm

[William Grim]

Post count, you say?  :-D

[Bryan]

go quantum, or go home.

[raptor]

and by post count i mean post count and still having a life :)

[Tony]

I was thinking about Moore's Law the other day and was wondering about how the issue of NP-Complete problems plays in all this.  In AI there are a lot of NP-Complete problems that would speed things up.  So, in the same way that reaching the smallest transistors might mean that Moore's Law has "hit its end", can we say until/if someone ever proves that P = NP then Moore's Law will "hit its end" due to software abilities as well?

I have no clue, just throwing that out there.

[raptor]

If a robot does the "robot" is it just dancing ?

[Tony]

If a robot does the robot, is it even a dance or just moving like a robot.  Which in turn, is the robot even a dance, or just weird people moving weird? hmm....