If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
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When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.
Although computer chips now are thinner, they're more powerful, they're not as reliable. You'd harvest computer chips from the 1980s from all around the world because they're reliable.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project.
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in the electronics industry, where there is great demand to pack more components onto computer chips.
Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.
I want to do new things, and I want to do more 200s than 100s.
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.