What new technology breakthroughs are on the horizons that are as significant as 1968 – Internet, 1973 – Fiber Optics Communication, 1980 – Quantum Computing, 1990 – Cellular communication, 2004 – Genome Mapping, 2010 – Memristor/Neuromorphic chips? Is there anything that we are missing that will create the next set of buzz words for the next decade?
P.S: I feel like Drones, 3d printers, virtual reality, augmented reality, these are all using old technologies that have been repurposed into new devices and not significantly NEW.
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.1v and milliwatt range switching devices is pretty big. We could outpace self heating by such an astounding degree that it would never become relevant in 3D stacked logic, even with 100 billion+ transistors. Optoelectronics for signaling is pretty big, and the implications for it being used to bring logic closer together is pretty immense. Two ICs on a board could essentially function as if they were on the same die because the latency bottleneck would no longer exist between them. For example a 22 core Xeon CPU could communicate with a discrete GPU over the PCI-E slot as if it were one of AMD's HSA enabled APUs. The throughput there would be immense in compute workloads, and that extends to everything else in a system as well.
There is also real potential for the transistor in all implementations to be replaced by photonic devices. The power used to influence the channel zone effectively would be waste in comparison to a photonic device which represents on or off by exciting matter into releasing an electron when it "switches." It would also have a true, absolute, off state that no transistor is capable of.
>tfw you'll never live long enough to install BeaGrill4aDayVR.EXE
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>/ngg/ New Technology General
g doesn't stand for Technology, silly. It stands for "Video Game Tech Support"
