The article was about silicon 3-D
transistors. It stated that Moore’s law (the prediction that the number of
transistors will double roughly every two years) will continue, thus providing
an opportunity to significantly increase the energy efficiency and speed of
processors. It also stated that the on and off flow of current in conventional
chips is controlled by an electric field generated by a so called gate that
sits upon the top of a wide, shallow conducting channel embedded in a silicon
substrate. Intel claims that the new transistors will be able to switch 37%
faster than the average transistors.
By what I have read, I believe that
at one point the world is going to continue to become more advanced and I do
believe Moore’s law, because if they are becoming so advanced right now who
knows what is to come later in life. What surprised me the most was that the
old transistors were always leaking current; I thought that the old transistors
were very stable and secure. Possibilities for the future may be that we become
too advanced, or that we finally discover what the world actually has to offer.
Two technologies that are
continually being used even today include, Intelligent software assisting
(smart phones, Iphones, Ipads, Tablets, etc.) and Software defined networking.
