Although this is not a story about Embedded Linux, it certainly deals with the underpinnings of the computing revolution on which the growing success of Linux is based: Moore's Law, the tendency of silicon device technology to double in density every 18 months.

In this interesting article at ZDNet News, Stephen Shankland reports on a fascinating approach HP has devised (and patented) for wiring molecular-scale digital “circuitry” to the outside world — a key step in the march towards semiconductor devices with orders of magnitude greater power and density than today's latest devices.

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