http://blog.semo.net Southeast Missouri's Online Community Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blog.semo.net/2006/10/05/happy-snaps-from-a-virus-infested-chip/ http://blog.semo.net/2006/10/05/happy-snaps-from-a-virus-infested-chip/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:35:50 +0000 Semo.net Management http://blog.semo.net/?p=205 Most of the time if you see virus and computer or electronics in the same sentence it is bad news. However some researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a transistor with very fast switching speeds. They have done this by coating 30-nanometer-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles. They say it could eventually be used to make memory chips for MP3 players and digital cameras. A device fitted with such a virus-chip would access data much more quickly than one using flash memory.

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