LONG LIFE TO THE LIGHT

i put this here 'cause i think it's newsworthy

WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER TYPE OF PROCESSORS

not like currents which function with electricity
but with LIGHT because Engineers are almost at the limit of graver process
(0.13 will attained the limit)
& under we lose the isolating layer between transistors

so they are thinking to replace electronics transistors by something which function with light (or lazer or .. i've to read another time the article to remember)
so transistors out, silicon out, LONG LIFE TO THE LIGHT


note:
IT'S NOTE A JOKE, REALLY

just perhaps about the year...


i know, a lot of you will certainly think this guy is out
but make an effort to try to think of, to search more about..


Everyone, Opinions, Infos, Info or Intox ?


EasyInfo
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Interesting... I wanne have a 'warp' CPU, sounds cool.

My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .

Do you have a link for this? I've been preaching fiber-optic motherboards for years now. Currently, the problem is I/O...it not's a problem to transmit the light on busses using fiber optics, but they can't transform the photons back to electronics FAST enough (opto-isolators do this).

So I figure either:
1. They will develop a new transistor altogether as you mentioned, so that they won't have to make this transformation.
2. Or they will find a way to make the transformation fast enough at chip-level I/O.

Note, in order to do this (number 1) though, they are going to have to find a way to store the bits using light also! I don't know how in the hell they are going to do this...I'd say we are much more than a year from this so don't get your hopes up. If I had to guess, I'd say 3-4 years...

Catheter and Caffeine IV are in place. Let's PLAY.

the medium will be some kind of a crystal, and it can have hundreds of layers of photonic transistors working at light speeds, so future optical processors would be probably complete systems, with processor core, RAM, ROM and I/O integrated into a single crystal of about a cubic centimeter!

girish

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why would one want to convert the signals back to electrical ones? transmision would be through fobre optic cable, processing in the crystals, for I/O they will have optical components, you already have optical mice, all you need is to generate the signals in form of light and thats not too difficult. optical keyboards would be easily designed this way, and the display.., well the LCD display is a optical technology itself! It does need electric field to charge the pixels, but then simple optical->electric convertors will work fine as tranceivers do.

girish

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Apple is gonan be using .10 micron on G5....

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

Actually, I was wrong here. It's been a while since I worked with them, but basically it's a type of transistor that uses a light emitting diode for the transmitter (LED) and a phototdiode or photoresistor for the receiver. My mistake was making it sound like this is used to convert Light to electrical current, but it doesn't. It basically converts electrical->light->electrical, so it wouldn't work for the I/O problem.

Sorry about that.

Catheter and Caffeine IV are in place. Let's PLAY.

Here's a link if you want a better explanation of opto-isolators:

<A HREF="http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/SpeedControl/Optos.html" target="_new">http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/SpeedControl/Optos.html</A>

Catheter and Caffeine IV are in place. Let's PLAY.

Ok, about solving stuff that's really complex. Pike, have u studied computer theory or anything? If you haven't, basically the way to find how long a program will run, one uses Big O as it's called. This is a rough way of estimating worst case scenario. Now, many programs, such as factoring inscrease exponentially (that means 2^n)when another input is added. Others, increase by n^2, n^3, etc. For instance, a simple sorting algorithm that starts from the end of an array of numbers, and checks 2 at a time, is O n^2. therefore, regardless of how fast a computer, digital computers will never be able to complete certain tasks. In that case, other means of finding the solution, or better algorithms must be found, but that is not always possible. hence, even if the comp was 20x faster, it still wouldn't necessarily help with the really big problems, such as nuclear bomb simulation, number factoring (which by the way current security systems are based on), etc.

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

Ok, i'm willing to show hand of cards any day, unlike some people, and not talking about you. I have college junior programmer diploma, i don't know what that amounts to in US, most probably not much. And that is from waaaaaaaaay back, i mean 8088 days, gulp! Do not work in this field as my bio attests to. My REAL schooling is "water treatment technician". I won't go on about psychologie, philosophy or religion because thouse as mirky waters indeed.
My point to finish is this:
Would we have gone to the moon without powerfull computing devices ?
Would the shuttle crafts function as well as they do without powerfull computers ?
And finally just to make sure my previous post was explained properly by myself, this is what i(and from the book "contact" ) was trying to say: the value 'pi' has (i forget the math term, well it,s a real number : no end to the fractionnal part of the number, 3.1416xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx etc come on help me out a tad, you know what i mean) infinit fractionnal numbers. Can be calculated by only one mathamatical process. And it is endless.
My point is at a given time or after a given number of calculations 10 to the 10000000000 etc power, there will no longer be aleatory numbers as results, but binary numbers and only binary numbers and these nubers taken as a string of data can be decoded into : that's the punch line.

Hope my explanation is adequate and just for the books, this is not MY idea. It is as i said "CARL SAGAN's".

Danny

Duby the snake now has a brand new skin

When i said:
Hope my explanation is adequate and just for the books, this is not MY idea. It is as i said "CARL SAGAN's".
This was in TRIBUTE to the man.
As a younster he did inspire me to question and seak answers and look to the sky in awe. He did this to many.

Danny

Duby the snake now has a brand new skin

Thanks....I want to get into MIT, which is why I'm doing as much as possible for school.

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

So why do intel and amd have plans to go to .09 by the end of next year?

"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
No Overclock+stock hsf=GOOD!

There is no typo.
MIU : Maharishi Internationnal University

Danny

Duby the snake now has a brand new skin

Intel has laready developed .03 micron technology, so has several other companies. We're set for another 10 years on simiconductors.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Well, the basic signals in those components (keyboards and *mouses*) can be optically generated, and can be transmitted to some optical medium which may not be the fibre optic cable we see today.

We are talking of photonics era and so we can safely assume that such an invention would be made by then.

nobody would be using copper electric medium to transmit information, especially at such tiny distances as mice and keyboards. or maybe they would be wireless units.

The processors then will be themselves optical components working on rays of light, probably still work with binary system, but at the speed of light!

And dont assume that C will be 2,99,972,458 m/sec, it will be somewhat lesser due to the refractive index of the crystal. Imagine optical components to be overclocked...!

girish

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good


EasyInfo
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1 year was just a joke

this could be 5 years, maybe even 10 years or more..

i really don't know nothing about apart to transform a pc to a christmas tree it's not very easy...



EasyInfo
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the optical cpu which im speaking about will don't use electricity but light, photons, or maybe others we don't know yet...


EasyInfo
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the g5 will be .13
the only thing that is known is apple has been working on .10 for the past year.

[insert philosophical statement here]

yea...
but this could be also put away a lot of people to joblessness again...


EasyInfo
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yeah,

you don't sleep in class


EasyInfo
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do you know An Cn Σ ƒΩφβθΦбαρεμσų¥ ?


EasyInfo
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Right, but my point is that the photonic era is still many many years away. I don't forsee this becoming reality for another 8-10 years.

Catheter and Caffeine IV are in place. Let's PLAY.

"mirky waters indeed"

are you sure ?
what those things could be...

ah, yes, religion, hum.. religious...

religious with chocolate.
yea !, i've got it

in France this is a sort of cake

has I found it ?




EasyInfo
I would like to Invest for my PC !!
ok, buy nothing.