Researchers crafting hybrid material to hasten computing processes
By Darren Murph 
posted Apr 7th 2008 8:13AM
posted Apr 7th 2008 8:13AM
There's been no shortage of fantasmical ideas to speed up our everyday computers, but a team of researchers from a variety of universities are working to do just that not by encouraging gamers to slap NOS stickers on their cases, but by combining magnetic and semiconductor components. Respectively, each of the aforesaid parts handle memory and logic functions, but this team is purporting that processes could be completed quicker and in a more power efficient manner if a hybrid material -- which combined both functions -- were created. The team has already received a $6.5 million grant from the Department of Defense with the overriding goal being to "explore new ways to integrate magnetism and magnetic materials with emerging electronic materials such as organic semiconductors," and while it's suggested that these so-called hybrid devices would be fairly inexpensive to produce in the future, it's too early to determine how close we are to seeing any breakthroughs slip out to consumerland.[Via Gearlog, image courtesy of University of Missouri]
I want my blue Jel Packs from Star Trek Voyager. It might catch a cold and die though. :(
Observe - The hybrid material scientist in his natural habitat.
Looks like they Photoshopped the pizza and caffeine drip out
IT'S SYNERGY, YO!
What Mr Prodigy really needs to do is figure out a way of harnessing that static electric charge which has clearly built up in his hair as a result of all that corduroy he's wearing rubbing together.
damn i knew i should have gone to mizzou!
Harry Potter is a materials scientist?
Dang it, you beat me to it! :)
Seriously, photoshop in the scar and its the boy (man?) who lived
place chalk dust inhalation warning here
Whats in that chalk.... Damn..
Vague.
It has been my experience that the more vague and elusive the specifics are, the less likely we are to see practical applications in the near future.
Yes, dazzle me with "time-dependent, spin-current density functional theory" but I'd be more impressed with real-world estimates of power consumptions, access speeds and processing times.