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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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Does mean that I can finally replace the vacuum tubes in my computer? I am hoping for something that can fit in my bedroom.
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.
I've personally never believed that whole "our ancestors invented the wheel" baloney. I mean, we went around carrying objects in bags and on our backs for millenia, and suddenly they invent a wheel AND an axel?!? Give me a break! They clearly reverse-engineered alien tech to get that working.
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...
Just think of it this way, with the new computing power you should be able to design the perfect tin foil hat.
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Ah...that explains why my XP system does spooky things sometimes...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
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
Overall, I consider your comment one of the most insightful I've ever read on Slashdot.
No offense to the original poster, but this is not exactly a compliment. It's like saying, "Your dog's ass smells the best of any dog's ass I've ever smelled."
Why thank you!
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
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.))
Ben Hocking
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