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Quantum Processor

I read a article that ibm is testing to use lead to increase the maximum ghz by almost 3X..

But all technology will hit a wall eventually,it's easy to say oh scientists will figuire something out but thats by no means a gurantee.Hp has said by 2020 there will not be enough progression in technology for people to want to buy new pc's and the entire industry will fall on its knees.
 
haroon said:
I read a article that ibm is testing to use lead to increase the maximum ghz by almost 3X..

But all technology will hit a wall eventually,it's easy to say oh scientists will figuire something out but thats by no means a gurantee.Hp has said by 2020 there will not be enough progression in technology for people to want to buy new pc's and the entire industry will fall on its knees.
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They also were saying that 16kb of memory is more than anyone will ever need in their life back in the days.

And in 2000 all computers will shut down and die.

And in 2012 we'll be all gone so we won't make it till 2020 anyways.
 
when did the idea of using light rather than electic die off?

intel and co, where arsing around with light transistors, and continuing that onto the PCBs
 
Im pretty sure time travel fit into the equation somewhere along the line, especially with those burrowing positrons & snake holes, or should that be snake oils?
 
haroon said:
Hp has said by [2010] there will not be enough progression in technology for people to want to buy new pc's and the entire industry will fall on its knees.
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Fixed! :)

PhoenixUK said:
And in 2012 we'll be all gone so we won't make it till 2020 anyways.
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Haha nice one PhoenixUK! :D . . . . I hope everything is ok with you lately but your posts are coming across like your very agitated about something?

If you come across any useful snippets of info on Quantum Processors I wuld be grateful! :) . . . I'm sure there is something cool/useful about them which hasn't been discussed yet! :cool:
 
Recently tbh, I was more interested in a thing that we've discussed with my mate few days ago regarding USB CPUs.

I mean, they already do powerfull external GPUs, why not a CPU?
Sort of 'folding@home' but for all calculations and through USB.

They already do similar stuff with the super computers where they will just connect a lot of PCs together, so something like that but with mini-mobo and cpu that will connect to your existing PC through some sort of interphace.


"Oh this encoding goes so slow - *SNAP* +2ghz quad" ;-).

It should be doable just will require sort of special motherboard/chipset that will allow both CPUs to communicate together and workload.

Anyways, sorry for off topic but I thought it might be interesting to share my thoughts ; ).
 
Interesting! :)

I'm thinking Quantum computing could be similar to how you describe this USB-CPU stick except you could just scoop up a few grains of sand to boost your processing power? :eek:
 
Big.Wayne said:
Interesting! :)

I'm thinking Quantum computing could be similar to how you describe this USB-CPU stick except you could just scoop up a few grains of sand to boost your processing power? :eek:
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why did that comment, remind be of a sand blasting gun. some guy sitting at his desk with a full on sand blaster suit on, and sand blowing around the room, lol
 
I really have trouble understanding the physics behind the quantum shizzle, i dont think any of us reading this will be alive to see commercial products there will more likely be a switch with current transistor type processors on a different material/manufacturing process.
Quantum physics is still in its infancy by all accounts a lot of it sounds amazing but is theoretical until someone can prove the theorys it remains science fiction, exciting science but unproven.

But i could be wrong perhaps we will all be flying around space in our robot body's fighting a war against giant slugs and there brainwashed monkey servants.
 
Sayso said:
I really have trouble understanding the physics behind the quantum shizzle, i dont think any of us reading this will be alive to see commercial products there will more likely be a switch with current transistor type processors on a different material/manufacturing process.
Quantum physics is still in its infancy by all accounts a lot of it sounds amazing but is theoretical until someone can prove the theorys it remains science fiction, exciting science but unproven.

But i could be wrong perhaps we will all be flying around space in our robot body's fighting a war against giant slugs and there brainwashed monkey servants.
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I think you misunderstand what a scientific theory is. Newton's three laws of mechanics are just theories, yet fit with all experimental data almost perfectly. Most of the basic quantum theory fits very well with experimental data, and in several cases is the only explanation, as classical mechanics goes **** up. Most of it is pretty well proven by scientific standards. Just look at electron tunneling, it is completely impossible in classical mechanics, yet has practical applications, like tunneling microscopes.
 
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There was a talk on at my college about quantum computers, theres already some about, although slow. From a rather simpliefied version of how powerful they are compared to their silicon counterparts, there in the region of 4 times as fast per mhz already.

Thinking about studying at university, as I'm sad and quite interested in this stuff.
 
lord filbuster said:
I think you misunderstand what a scientific theory is. Newton's three laws of mechanics are just theories, yet fit with all experimental data almost perfectly. Most of the basic quantum theory fits very well with experimental data, and in several cases is the only explanation, as classical mechanics goes **** up. Most of it is pretty well proven by scientific standards. Just look at electron tunneling, it is completely impossible in classical mechanics, yet has practical applications, like tunneling microscopes.
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yes i probably do.ive only a basic education but im a quick learner..i have also read a book
 
easyrider said:
We are drip fed technology...
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this is the biggest, most important factor that we as enthusiasts should remember.
a point well made.

i think we are heading to the point where big M's law goes out of the window and we are presented with ever more efficiant processing units

the target in my eyes would be nehalem style performance from an Atom style package

nice thread Wayne :)
 
Awesome, the thread is rolling and I'm learning stuff! :)

Thought it would bomb (still could!) but was hoping it would survive long enough to yeild some good info! . . . when gurusan started talking about carbon nanotube chips I felt ridiculously out my depth hah! :D

Anyway I need to know abit more about this subject but I'm still stumbling at a few basics! :o

Can anyone help me understand the defination of Quantum? :confused: the definition from Wiki in the opening post isn't making the penny drop?

Secondly, a rather profound point I'd like to make and has already been touched on above but I am led to believe that *we* the general public are not made fully aware of the current state of technology, this might sound a bit profound but I'm pretty confident there is quite a large gap between the technological high end we know exists to the actual technological high end that exists in reality . . . i.e we are kept ignorant of the true state (the military has it all!) . . . therefore I'm keen to grasp the concept of what is possible and if it's Quantum technology I'm keen to hoover up as much info as possible, I just need to have that info presented to me in a way I can understand/digest it!

Can someone draw me a picture! :p

I'd just like to inform people that google now rates this the World's #1 thread on "quantum shizzle" :D
 
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