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> machine. Consider this viewpoint from Kevin Kelly�s book New Rules for
> the New Economy:
>
> "A single silicon transistor today can only be seen in a microscope. In
> a few years, it will take a microscope to see an entire chip of
> transistors. ... In 1950, a transistor
> cost $5. Today, it costs one-hundredth of a cent. In 2003, one
> transistor will cost a microscopic nanocent.
This is typical mass media technical ignorance. Chips are not
shrinking in any significant way, and are not at all likely to
become microscopic. Where would you attach the pins?
If transistors cost one-hundredth of a cent, a 64Mb RAM would
cost $6,700.00; on the other hand, if single transistors cost
a "nanocent" in 2003, the 1024Mb RAM chips coming out around
then will cost a penny. This Kelly guy is writing about
the New Economy and he can't even do arithmetic?
Bob Munck
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