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the additional power is for companies, military and such... even for gaming it would be usefull. Remember that online gaming they talked about a few months ago, where the games are hosted on the server? well that server needs a pretty hefty chunk of power for many users ^^.



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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.

Yeah, they have been promising this for ages.



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



Scoobes said:
Soleron said:
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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

I'm hoping for my career that it's something with the word quantum in it.