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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (76178)3/6/2001 4:54:43 PM
From: Follies  Read Replies (3) of 436258
 
500 silver atoms doesn't sound like a lot

yeah but they have to be perfectly round atoms, only 1 in 10,000 are round enough, and the process of selecting the round ones destroys the non-round ones. So thats 5 million per transistor, so if we have a Pentium with 10 million transistors, thats over an ounce of silver per CPU. It might add up.
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