The size of computer chips has been shrinking at a rapid pace over that last decade or so. While that gives us awesomely compact and capable devices like tablet PCs and smartphones, the issue is that we’re coming up on the the logical end of this advancement; soon we won’t be able to shrink things any smaller.
Scientists at Northwestern University have not found a way around this problem exactly, but they have been developing a nanoscale material that could allow chips to become more powerful and more efficient without necessarily making them smaller. Instead, this material would allow chips to effectively rewire themselves on the go in order to increase the efficiency of whatever process happens to be executing at the moment. via Geekosystem
