RE: On how the NSA can be generations ahead

At 05:23 PM 8/1/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

No, the NSA is probably generations ahead in some areas, but their fabs

aren't much better than what's available commercially.

Yes, upon consideration I agreed, re critical dimensions. That's why I brought up uneconomically sized chips, and the tech of thinned wafers. The point being (yes, if you can cool them) that small = fast. 1 foot per nanosecond, remember? And some of the neato-analog stuff one can do does *better* with big honkin' micron sized features, albeit on exotic materials, and the large-area/thinned argument still holds. ---- M. Atta: an army of one.