On 4/27/2015 12:22 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
LizR wrote:
Yes that's more of less what SA said - they've got around the clock speed limit by
multiplying cores, but they can't get around the fact that components can't be scaled
below (I think) 14nm without that transistors leaking electrons - at least not without
some radical new technology. So it was about whether some new paradigm is on the way to
keep things heading towards the what's his name - begins with L I think's - limit.
(Memristors nanotubes etc)
Actually, what I took from the article was that future improvements in computing are
going to be driven by the commercial imperative of profits. This is not likely to happen
by pursuing faster processors and memory chips per se.
"...our vision of computers themselves is evolving. It turns out that we do not want
stand-alone, oraclelike "thinking machines" as much as late 20th-century science-fiction
writers thought we would. ... Instead, the relentless pursuit of lower cost per function
will be driven by so-called heterogeneous computing."
Bruce
Yeah, no need for computing power on your desk, just let it all be done on the cloud -
we're all connected to the NSA computers anyway, let them do it.
Brent
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