Tuesday, February 10, 2009

32 nanometer

So intel is going to start shipping transistors 32 nanometers in size, or, as the story described so small "that 4 million of them would fit on the period at the end of this sentence."  Conceptually that is a pretty staggering thought and I wonder how we convey that to our students.  I am curious how we teach, just conceptually, about the 'working' of a computer.  

Maybe we should have some kind of club to take apart computers and rebuild them.  

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