lclough wrote:
] ] Moore's Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it
] ] today, is coming to an end, according to a recent
] ] research paper.
] ...
] ] Resolving these issues is a major goal for the entire
] ] industry. Under Moore's Law, chipmakers can double the
] ] number of transistors on a given chip every two years,
] ] an exponential growth pattern that has allowed computers
] ] to get both cheaper and more powerful at the same time.
]
] Moore's law hits a wall at about 2021, when fundamental
] physics prevent devices from becoming any smaller. After that
] it will
] be ncessary to take other steps (larger chips, 3D chips?) to
] continue the performance increase.

I'm not sure if you've heard of adiabatic computing, but here's a wired.com link about it which might affect moore's law: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61118,00.html
Hugo de Garis called reversible (adiabatic) computing "the greatest of the scientific discoveries of the 20th century."
Actually, they mention adiabatic computing in the link you provided in this paragraph:
"One extremely theoretical potential idea is to reuse electrons. In current architectures, electrons travel from a source to a drain and then are destroyed. With recycling, "you simply transfer the electron to something else," Gargini said. "You can make a lot of calculations without destroying the electrons." "

Hugo De Garis also predicts computers will become "trillions of trillions" of times more powerful than the human brain using molecular electronics, a subfield of nanotechnology. Actually, I think he mentioned using quantum mechanics to do this or something, but I can't make heads or tails of quantum mechanics. When first starting to read about it, I almost dismissed it as some strange meme in science, an idea that was successful at replicating whether or not it was credible.

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