Bothers the hell out of me. I don't know why, it just feels so disengaged of my time. Makes me feel like they think I'm a child. Is there any research as this?
A specific vegetable may not cure cancer but staying away from Class 1 carcinogens certainly will prevent it: things like Asbestos, Plutonium and Processed Meat.
We can get more transistors by going 3D, but what about the heat? The real tragedy has been the degradation (although not yet death) in Dennard Scaling.
And even then Landauer's limit will begin to rear it's head around 10,000-100,000X lower power. Reversible computing is an option, but does not cover I/O and will furthermore set us back in performance and transistor efficiency.
If memory serves correctly, about a year ago there was a shift in Bitmain Bitcoin miners towards a 3D chip architecture that was fairly effective; it might be a domain specific application, though.
Dennard scaling, also known as MOSFET scaling, is a scaling law based on a 1974 paper co-authored by Robert H. Dennard, after whom it is named.[1] Originally formulated for MOSFETs, it states, roughly, that as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current scale (downward) with length.
Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. ...
At 20 °C ..., the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.0175 eV, or 2.805 zJ. Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with energy being converted to heat in the memory media at the rate of only 2.805 trillionths of a watt (that is, at a rate of only 2.805 pJ/s). Modern computers use millions of times as much energy per second.
[But there's a limit to how far we can improve that leading to hitting it around 2050].
Modern computers using millions more is a little misleading, since a lot of that goes to architectural overhead and other things than single bit computations.
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Bothers the hell out of me. I don't know why, it just feels so disengaged of my time. Makes me feel like they think I'm a child. Is there any research as this?
Oh, and before you complain about the title, most of my titles are boring by design. I finally got a chance to do something different, so I took it
"Will this vegetable cure cancer?" No, it will not.
"This new productivity hack may surprise you!" Chances are it's just some repacking of some old idea and won't surprise me.
; )
And even then Landauer's limit will begin to rear it's head around 10,000-100,000X lower power. Reversible computing is an option, but does not cover I/O and will furthermore set us back in performance and transistor efficiency.
Dennard scaling, also known as MOSFET scaling, is a scaling law based on a 1974 paper co-authored by Robert H. Dennard, after whom it is named.[1] Originally formulated for MOSFETs, it states, roughly, that as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current scale (downward) with length.
Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. ...
At 20 °C ..., the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.0175 eV, or 2.805 zJ. Theoretically, room‑temperature computer memory operating at the Landauer limit could be changed at a rate of one billion bits per second with energy being converted to heat in the memory media at the rate of only 2.805 trillionths of a watt (that is, at a rate of only 2.805 pJ/s). Modern computers use millions of times as much energy per second.
[But there's a limit to how far we can improve that leading to hitting it around 2050].
Um? A silicon atom is something like 0.2 nanometers. 1000 times that is 200 nanometers. We passed that a long time ago. Am I missing something?