Scoobes on 19 August 2009
| Soleron said: This has been promised for ages, with little progress. It's one of many technologies touted to replace conventional electronics; others include "spintronics", "atomtronics", replacing the electrons with photons, and many forms of quantum computing. Also, do we need the additional power? Today's sub-$150 CPU runs every consumer application fine, it's only the high-end workstations that are CPU-bound. |
You can never have too much power! (except in the context of cooling, as MS have learnt recently, lol). This has been promised for a while but eventually we're going to come to a point where die shrinks aren't feasible. A complete rethink will be needed, and as we approach the point I think we'll see these new techs gradually gain traction, the unfeasible ideas will die and we'll have a completely new method of chip manufacture/design.
Personally I hope it goes the way of Biological molecules (DNA and proteins). They're already nano scale and it'd give me new career ops :P
