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And what would that different method be?

• delecti 8y ago
  I think if they knew that they'd probably be selling the answer, not giving it away here. It's clear the our current approach to making chips is approaching a fundamental limit, it's not clear that there's an alternative, other than asymptotically scraping increasingly small performance gains as we toe closer to that line.
  • mycall 8y ago
    https://www.darpa.mil/program/hierarchical-identify-verify-exploit https://www.darpa.mil/program/hierarchical-identify-verify-e...
    • delecti 8y ago
      That's probably the other half of where things will go. General purpose computers eking out minor performance gains, and niche applications continuing to move toward more and more specialized and single-purpose hardware.
• opportune 8y ago
  I’m sure there are plenty of ways to physically implement logic that don’t rely on mostly-2D silicon transistor chips. Perhaps some of those pathways, once sufficiently developed, will have a higher upper bound on performance I think in the near term we will see micro fluid cooling tech developed for more fully 3D chips. The human brain is a pretty good model for what that may look like
• mjevans 8y ago
  In addition to the other replies... it isn't obvious that there is going to be one. Experts far more versed in this field than I might have theories that could pan out, but I wouldn't know. Science fiction likes to point to either optical or some method of quantum interaction computing. I'm actually not sure what the basis for those are, it could be that photon based computers are actually a type of quantum computation system. As I led with, that's stuff I've seen mentioned in fiction.