With new funding, ISC hopes to make a chip-stack connected using 3DFETs within 18 months.After that, says ISC's chief technical officer, John Carson, the long-term goal is to stack 1,000 neural chips in a single cube.
The extended scope of the bill may follow some of the recommendations of the intelligence and security committee (ISC), which suggested in March that the entire existing surveillance legal framework should be replaced by a single new act of parliament.
Has the ISC now been given all the new evidence, including about links between the plotters here and camps in Pakistan?
The ISC says it agrees and recommends that the new surveillance law should list each intrusive capability available to MI5, MI6 and GCHQ and the human rights obligations that constrain their use.
As Sir David Omand, the former head of GCHQ, told the ISC: "The most important thing is to explain how the system actually works and, as importantly, what it does not allow as well as what it does allow".
The ISC report may have been written before they were published but one cannot help but speculate that the anticipation of those rulings was a major factor behind this new move towards transparency.
Paul Murphy, an ISC chairman during Labour's years in power, remembered his committee had nobody to help them make sense of vast numbers of technical documents.
He conceded the job of the ISC becomes extremely difficult if it is "not trusted by either parliament or the media, and if people don't accept what it says.
The ISC also falls down on the demands for stronger oversight.
The ISC report does not explicitly propose the snooper's charter but it does provide a vehicle for its introduction.
The Guardian understands the ISC report details how MI5 officers monitored four meetings in early 2004 between Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer - the ringleaders of the 7/7 attacks - and Omar Khyam, the ringleader of a plot to blow up shopping centres and nightclubs who was jailed for life in 2007.
