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Source: Tom's Hardware | B 0 comment  Researchers at the
University of Nebraska have patented a process for making self-
assembling arrays of quantum dots, nano-sized components, using
a simple electrochemical process on an aluminum substrate. The
team says their technique produces dots with performance 500
percent better than its closest competitor. They also say they
will bring the technique to market in five years and that
computers using quantum techniques exploiting superpositioning
qbits will start to replace binary computers before the end of
the decade. According to one group member, "You could build a
quantum computer (with just 1,000 atoms) that has 2 to the
1,000th bits of data, which you could never do with a binary
computer, because the number 2 to the 1,000th is larger than the
number of atoms in the known universe."  Researchers at the
University of Trento in Italy have produced 3 nanometer
structures made of only 500 silicon atoms