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HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor?
moojin writes "CNN.com reports that "in a paper published in Tuesday's Journal of Applied Physics, HP said three members of its Quantum Science Research group propose and demonstrate a "crossbar latch," which provides the signal restoration and inversion required for general computing without the need for transistors.""
Additionally, the crossbar latch can be locked across the steering wheel to prevent car theft.
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Some funding for the experiment came from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Yeah. I'm betting that "some" of the tech used came from the same source as well. I mean, if it's been proven [tt] that transistors couldn't have been invented the all of a sudden way they were in 1947 (or even using today's technology), then how are they expecting us to believe that this new tech isn't reverse-engineered UFO tech? We're currently still miles away from acheiving anything in quantum computing, and now we're suddenly expected to believe that HP has this kind of working tech? Give me a break.
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Does mean that I can finally replace the vacuum tubes in my computer? I am hoping for something that can fit in my bedroom.
if not then im not interested.
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I thought HP only did printers :)
A million monkeys and this is the best sig they could come up with...
it is going to transform the way we computer simply out of the sheer computing power we'll be able to throw at things.
Yep. After that no more thinking will be required. Just brute force everything. Chess, unsolved equations, protein folding, you name it. We won't need science any more.
Smaller, faster, and easier to build.
I must say, sexy, darn sexy.
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Next thing you are going to tell me is that this will run Duke Nukem Forever.
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
We are dealing with quantum applications here. Maybe you should look a little harder. It's small after all...
Didn't Chevy invent those back in the 50s? What is this crossbar latch and what does it have to do with computery?
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Ah...that explains why my XP system does spooky things sometimes...
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Funny, I was going o say the same thing about your post.
Somehow people don't think you're full of shit. Amazing.
Does this mean that in a few years you will be able to charge $2000 for a transistor audio amplifier to a dorky audiophile who claims that "crossbar amps does not sound as good as old technology" ?
For some reason this kindled the mental image of a giant gorilla throwing poop at a brick wall which suddenly transforms into a cure for cancer. I don't know who is worse off the person who thinks that sheer computing power will solve everything or me :-/
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Maybe I'm being troll like, but everytime somebody "announces" some dramatic breakthrough lately (medical, computing, so on...) We are always at least 10 years from actual stuff I might be able to buy.
It's unfair to tease me and then never come out with the stuff!
Bah, I'll never use a nanoscale latch computer. My transistor computer sounds warmer and less sterile! Plus it distorts prettily...
She is going to pretty steamed when she finds out there are a few people left not devoted to figuring out ways to get customers to buy more ink.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
They didn't need wheels, they had giant robotic daschunds to carry whatever needed to be moved.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
you could simultaneously simulate a giant gorilla throwing poop at a brick wall, a stucco wall, a steel wall, and a glass wall, although you would have to stipulate the condition which would select the simulation results you actually get - such as which wall yields the largest splatter. That would obviously be the last calculation we would ever need.
(A lot of people don't realize that only one of the 2^n calculations is returned, but one can conditionalize which calculation is returned, so that ultimately only the "useful" calculation is returned. All of the other calculations are sent to our unlucky quantum brothers in other universes. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the cosmic backround radiation wasn't found to actually be such a residue from our lucky quantum brothers who have already developed quantum computing!)
((Yes, I'm just kidding.))
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Crossbar latches just don't have the natural warmth of sound that transistors do.