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Transforming acoustics, 'saser' beams to boost computing speeds to terahertz
Jun 18 2009, Bharat

Now, in continuation to the word “fast,” scientist have their own versions. GHz of speeds is perhaps eternity for us, but those sitting in the labs just need reasons to expand. Reason enough is more computing speed, and to the rescue is “saser,” a...

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