If Moore's Law hits a sinkhole...

[Radar]

Gaming is what drives innovation in the computer industry and that won't change. The motherboard I'm buying has 2 PCI Extreme Ports to add 2 high end video cards in SLi mode. This means one video card will render the current frame, the other will render the next frame, allowing an ungodly amount of frames per second and amazing performance.

I wouldn't bet on Moore's law failing. Right now Intel, AMD, and others researchers and universities are working on Quantum computer chips. They will be an order of magnitude faster than our current chips. These chips are right around the corner.

I've actually heard the chips are already done, but the government won't allow them to be released until encryption methods are improved. The new chips would eat right through current encryption. It would normally take 30+ years even with supercomputers to break 1024 bit encryption. A Quantum chip could do it in minutes.

I'm sure if the chips are available already, the government is using them. I know the U.S. government recently purchased the world's largest solid state storage chip. It holds more than 400 terabytes. This could hold an operating system which could run anything almost instantly. Couple this with the Quantum chip and you've got a machine that would allow the government to get into anyone's computer at anytime.

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Originally Posted by Radar

I wouldn't bet on Moore's law failing. Right now Intel, AMD, and others researchers and universities are working on Quantum computer chips. They will be an order of magnitude faster than our current chips. These chips are right around the corner.

Yeaah. And oil companies are still keeping the 1000 MPG carburetor off the market. And US nuclear subs are actually stored in secret caves beneath NYCs bedrock.

It helps to first learn of reality before posting. Quantum computers are but fragile advance science toys that, last I had heard were up to 4 bits. It takes something like 8 years to double those bits. And still they are not even stable enough for a controlled computer room. Meanwhile if encryption security was a reason for quashing quantum computers, well, quantum encryption is currently being tested in a network in MA. Quantum encryption is already far ahead of quantum computing.

Quantum computer research is not ongoing in 'application' research labs such as AMD and Intel. It is still in 'basic' research labs such as University of CA (Santa Barbara), National Institute for Standards and Technology, CERN in Switzerland, Paul Drude Institute in Berlin Germany, etc.

If you know about this 400 Terabyte memory chip, then share details such as who developed it, where, using what technology, manufactured in what quantities, etc? Why not? Radar ... you have again done exactly as Rush Limbaugh types would do. Hype a lie in hopes that the naive will believe propaganda. Warning message to the naive. Radar is lying because he provides no underlying facts, no supporting numbers, and contradicts 'state of the art' science. Most damning - he provides no details hoping that is enough for you to 'know' something.

Optics for data storage, as Rich Levy notes, was suppose to first appear on the market this year from IBM. I suspected that was why IBM sold their hard drive division to Hitachi. Optics for CPUs has long been an objective to eliminate those power hungry data busses inside a CPU. But currently no one has made a successful or useful optical switching transistor. As EE Times noted, these would be breakthrough technologies that could replace the FET transistor. Unfortunately, as EE Times said, "there really is no replacement".