Originally posted by: DualXP4ghz
If I remember correctly, once we get down passed .05 micron, everything is so small that information will be to large to be correctly processed. Now, if we are gonna be down to that size in say, around 2 years, what different types of data streams will we be using to process the data. My neighbor who is a computer engineer told me that some companies have been developing units to process information based on a data stream sent by light. I was just curious as to what kinds of new technologies will be used in the near future. Thankyou in advance
If 50nm is the limit that data can be sent through, I guess we'll never see quantum computing Also, there was talk way back when that a pentium chip could not possibly go faster than 200 mhz as then there would be "interference" because the cpu would be "broadcasing" and the signals would get crossed. Thankfully this was bs.
I don't know about so called "light" computers, as the next logical step in computing will be quantum. Now that is an exciting technology that actually exists in more than theory. Think about it, bits are either on or off (1 or 0), and you can work at trying to turn them on and off as fast as possible, and use light to do it I guess, but if you want to take it a step further now, how about your computer being so fast, that it can actually wait on the 'in between' state. Think of a computer that can function at the level that the bits can be both on and off at the same time. That's quantum computing.