A team of researchers from Rice University and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are developing a new PCMOS silicon technology that they say uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's technology. The announcement was made at this week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco.Although PCMOS runs on standard silicon, it breaks with computing's past by abandoning the set of mathematical rules -- called Boolean logic -- that have thus far been used in all digital computers....
