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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (33457)	11/25/2001 6:08:34 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 208838

Intel's flagship Pentium 4 chip has about 42 million transistors. Microprocessors with a billion transistors are expected in the second half of this decade. They have chemically formed "wires" only 2-3 atoms wide using the element Dysprosium, where the potential of having a trillion transistors per sqr/ct is enivisioned. INTC article mentions this new chip as the TeraHerz, cause it cycles on and of a trillion times per/sec, and it would take a person more than 15,000 years to turn a light switch on and off a trillion times. My question is, with all these advances ....why do we still have "light-switches" ? ;-) make sure, when you are old and decrepid, you have some gold coins stashed away to offer, so as they can take you out in the terrace to take some sun... -g- don't forget the Saphires, Emeralds , Rubies too ...but Gold & Platinum also work . ;-)