In perhaps as little as a decade, the circuits will be so thin that the phenomenon known as quantum tunneling, where electrons slip through the silicon walls, will make further progress impossible.
They will be very thin, so fold them in half and layer them onto a warm dinner plate.
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Instead of traditional crystalline silicon solar panels, it will be using thin film solar, which uses elements other than silicon.
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The sheer size and diversity of the chip market will allow more than one winner, but margins will be as thin as a silicon wafer.
No, neither of these devices will be as thin as many of the modern-day top dogs, but despite their bulkier frame the two handsets had a solid build quality and were decidedly comfortable to hold.
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There will be wide, thin, innovative TVs at CES. They will have glorious high-resolution OLED screens and cost way too much money for the average consumer, when and if they become available.
Still, it will be light and thin by laptop standards, even with its optional keyboard cover.
That new ice will often be fragile and thin, easily disrupted by summer weather.
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Which begs the question will this thin market be tempted to clear them out first?
This time, however, a total eclipse will be visible in a thin strip from Iran to the Pacific ocean, cutting through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Each piece then gets hand trimmed or pinched into shape, he says, showing how a thin tube of clay will be shaped into candelabra that looks like a long, thin piece of coral.
When fully baked, the cakes will be springy to the touch and a thin knife inserted into the centers will come out clean.
The skin on a dog's stomach is thin and will be more painful for the healing process.
Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.
But as companies brace for a possible recession, the real advantage of a new generation of thin clients will be cost savings.
School days have been extended and play times will be staggered in an effort to thin the crowds of students.
The actual annular portion, in which the sun appears as a thin ring, will be about four minutes long, Newmark said.
The budgetary reductions will have an impact on individuals, say aid workers, since the cuts will be applied to programmes already stretched thin.
It has been concluded therefore that in the future less than 1% of solar pv will be in the form of CIGS thin-film cells.
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Victory for either candidate will probably be by a razor-thin margin.
Wal-Mart is pursuing thin film for the promise that eventually, when production is scaled up, thin film panels will be cheaper to make than traditional ones, explains Rive.
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Thus flash memory in ultra thin notebook computers will be most popular ether incorporated into a hybrid HDD (such as those offered by Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) or as a dual storage device configuration where the OS and applications are stored on a small SSD and user data is stored on a HDD.
Dell promises the XPS 15z will be the first of a series of thin and powerful computers from Dell this year.
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This will be a benefit to tablet and other thin client devices that depend upon access to inexpensive on-line services, including storage.
Should Rambus make its patent claims stick, the cost of the commodity DRAM business, which already operates with razor-thin profit margins, will be greater.
Despite the market trading thin, such data releases will be fast and furious for the remainder of our first trading week this year.
At the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, computer makers will be pushing a new breed of ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops amid a sea of razor-thin smartphones and tablets.
The third is going off the euro and declaring that all deposits will be paid off in new Cypriot pounds, which the government will simply print out of thin air.
Meanwhile, 23.5% of the thin people with risky indicators will not be screened or treated early because they "look" healthy.
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