A giant leap forward has been made at Stanford University recently when a group of graduate students created the first carbon nano tube computer. Now to most people this does not seem to be that important but its a amazing leap forward in terms of computers. Now silicon is the main part of making a computer these days but silicon has limits, because computer parts are coming out smaller, cheaper and better people wonder what the draw back is. It’s because that when you condense the part and make it work better it uses more energy and less efficiently. But carbon nano tube brings a whole new look on it. Inside of silicon you can use nano tubes which are only a atom thick and 1 nano millimeter. Now instead of using silicon to make computer parts they can cram a lot of nano tubes into a box and it will work just as good.
Nanotechnology is not the only place where people are searching for a better way to make and advance computers though. There is Quantum computing which is the theory that particles of sound and light can being happening at the same time, which means that the computer could be truly doing to things at the exact same time, and they have also been studying making computers out of DNA, which stores data of double helix DNA strands.
Now nano computing is a long ways off to being sold at your local store because the they have only created a computer that can do simple math equations but it’s a start. They have overcome a lot of problems already and the students said that all the lab work done now its time to move it into a company's hands. Hopefully they can keep making advances so that one day we can all have carbon nanotube powered computers. But even though nano computing is the future experts predict that nanotechnology won’t take over silicon anytime soon.
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