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The Quest for the Spin Transistor
Daktaklakpak writes: "Found this interesting article on the IEEE Spectrum. It details the different attempts to make transistors based on electronic spin. Apparently, this technology is related to the MRAM that we've been hearing so much about."
If a whole computer platform could be developed using spintronics, we would be no longer be bound by a binary system. Even a trinary system would give itself a seven fold speed increase.
But that would require radical thinking and a complete redesign of the computer industry, which could take decades (plus a week for someone to port linux to it).
AWG
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
... from the subject line I thought this story was going to be about the quest for a product which would take a company's press release and translate the PR spin into something meaningful... ... and here I was thinking we might be onto something truly useful ;-)
Here is another article about electronic spin based computing. It clearly explains, toward the end, what will be the practical applications of those experiments.
<pun> I guess all those PHD's mentioned in the article would be spin doctors... </pun>
Anybody want a peanut?
i work in the building where the bose-einstein condensates were first made five years ago (and got the nobel prize in physics this year).
You or the building?
If something works off of spin, wouldn't we have to build a mirror image of one for use in Australia and New Zealand? I mean, toilets and sinks and drinking fountains spin the other direction down there, so wouldn't electrons too?
*smile*
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...