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3D circuits/chips is one possibility. There are others that are being researched. Then there are the unknown unknowns...

• jacquesm 10y ago
  > 3D circuits/chips is one possibility. Yes, but we've been aware of that one for decades, it just isn't going to happen for anything other than maybe (and that's a small maybe) for memory. Removing the heat is hard enough with 3D heat infrastructure and 2D chips. Removing the heat from 3D chips is not possible at a level where the interior of the chip is above permissible values unless you clock the whole thing down to where there are no gains. > There are others that are being researched. Yes, but nothing that looks even close to ready to mainstream. > Then there are the unknown unknowns... They've been 'unknown' for a long time now. Really, this is as far as I can see more hope than reason.
  • pkolaczk 10y ago
    Human brain is 3D and has no problems with TDP and cooling while being extremely fast at parallel processing of data like images or sound to the point that the fastest supercomputers ever built still can't compete.