Stories by Praveen Chaudhari

Soon semiconducting chips employed in high-speed logic operations will be imprinted with more than 100,000 transistors, and chips in a computer's memory will store up to 16 million bits of information

In composition they are metallic, but they have the noncrystalline atomic structure typical of a glass. Such a material can be prepared by cooling a molten alloy at a rate of a million degrees per second