Computer Uses Ultra-Low Power DesignFrom "Email Viewers Click here for Google TechTalk Video Lecture"
As an electrical engineer, I also like to follow developments in computers and quantum computing. Here's a new computing approach posted on the Development-Cycle web site. The above video is a new Google TechTalk video lecture (see above) of an interesting shared memory computing approach by the famed Dr. Karmarkar. His design approach reduces energy requirements in large scale Peta-flop computing systems, while seemingly exploiting a massive multi-threading capability via an electromagnetic cavity machine design with field emission devices. This ultra-low power design also has the added advantage of using quantum mechanics where it is needed the most, while keeping the rest of the computer design fairly standard in about a square meter of silicon CMOS.
It's ideas like this that excite me about the future of the applied quantum computing, where when you least expect it - new approaches seem to come out of nowhere that will surely help to change the future of computing.
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Labels: Energy Efficiency, Nanotechnology, Quantum Design, Research
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