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Limits to Moore's Law Launch New Computing Quests

Posted by Soulskill on from the moore-and-better dept.

tringtring alerts us to news that the National Science Foundation has requested $20 million in funding to work on "Science and Engineering Beyond Moore's Law." The PC World article goes on to say that the effort "would fund academic research on technologies, including carbon nanotubes, quantum computing and massively multicore computers, that could improve and replace current transistor technology." tringtring notes that quantum computing has received funding on its own lately, and work on multicore chips has intensified the hunt for parallel programming. Also, improvements are still being made to current transistor mechanics.

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  1. The real question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    How much experience is this quest worth?

  2. Killer app? by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what would be the killer app that needed all that extra power?
    Moore's Law might be linear but who's to say that demand for processing power is also... ...scratch that, Microsoft just released a new operating system. The minimum spec is 640 quantum cores.

  3. Breakin' da law, breakin' da law... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, is Moores Law a law or the quota the industry need to meet?

    Officer : "Sir, I'll have to arrest you for breaking Moore's Law"

    Intel exec : "Oh noes!"