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Limits to Moore's Law Launch New Computing Quests
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.
Well, with any luck they'll get that massively-multicore quantum processor out in time for the release of Duke Nukem Forever. I hear the frame rate will be awesome.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
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The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.