Quantum Computers The Next Big Technology?
by frankiespeakin 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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EntirelyPossible
There is a definite upper boundary we are approaching on transistor density. This also applies to storage, be it SSD, traditional platter based storage, NUMA based memory, traditional RAM or NVRAM.
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kurtbethel
Quantum computers are overrated. I used one a while back for CGI work, and it would skip frames and misplace files so much that I could not use it in a productive way.
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botchtowersociety
D-Wave in Vancouver is the current commercial leader. "Adiabatic Quantum Computing." Google and Lockheed Martin are already customers.
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botchtowersociety
There is a definite upper boundary we are approaching on transistor density. This also applies to storage, be it SSD, traditional platter based storage, NUMA based memory, traditional RAM or NVRAM.
True, but current technology only toggles between two states per element. It is binary. Manipulating electron spin (rather than charge) or using memristor technology would raise the number of discrete logical states per element, and thus the data density could be far higher. HP and Samsung are working on memristors, but there are others. NVE and Everspin are working on spintronic memory, but there are others here as well.
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EntirelyPossible
True, but current technology only toggles between two states per element. It is binary. Manipulating electron spin (rather than charge) or using memristor technology would raise the number of discrete logical states per element, and thus the data density could be far higher.
Thanks, BTS. I never knew computers were binary. math is hard! I only know like, 10 people that really understand how this binary computer stuff works.
P.S. I've only been hearing about using electron spin for like, 20 years. It's still a ways out.
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