The human genome project itself, which was the enabling factor of this revolution, was perfectly exponential with the number of base pairs being sequenced doubling every year and the cost per base pair coming down by half every year.

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Thanks to Samsung, they made the leap to the ARM architecture, enabling longer battery life in a thin form factor.

ENGADGET: March 17, 2013 7:15 PM EDT