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Re: the post-silicon future

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RS Wood wrote:

> From the «it's all just sand anyway» department:
> Title: The Post-Silicon future
> Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:05:14 -0400
> Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-07-12/the-postsilicon-future
> 
> It's hard to understate the impact of the silicon chip and the advances
> wrought by Moore's law and steady research and development in
> miniaturizing transistors on silicon. But we're getting close to the
> limits, 

Just an observation

It is interesting that this story comes up about every ~5 years since the 
mid 90s. The exact NM numbers quoted keeps getting smaller, something about 
quantum mechanics is mentioned, and then copper, gallium, or other new 
materials are mentioned as coming to the rescue. Or even photonic computing 
IIRC. Doggone computers just keep getting faster though. Maybe the 
predictions will be accurate this time??

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