Moore’s law to the limit

[hcap]

IBM Just Made the World’s Most Advanced Computer Chip

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/07/09/ibm_7_nanometer_computer_chip_the_world_s_most_adv anced_processor.html

On Thursday, IBM announced its development of a fingernail-size computer chip that has roughly four times more processing power than ever before. The transistors in IBM’s new chip clock in at a size of 7 nanometers long—an industry record.

[tucker6]

remember the days when a 486 was considered the zenith of computer processing... :D

[DJofSD]

Actually, it's not really IBM. They sold that part of the business to GlobalFoundries which used to be the manufacturing arm of AMD.

[hcap]

Actually, it's not really IBM. They sold that part of the business to GlobalFoundries which used to be the manufacturing arm of AMD.It was a partner ship.

ALBANY, N.Y. - 09 Jul 2015: An alliance led by IBM Research (NYSE:IBM) today announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE).

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47301.wss

[DJofSD]

https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/45110.wss

IBM's partnerships usually mean they supply the money and then get to brand the outcome as theirs.

[hcap]

IBM's partnerships usually mean they supply the money and then get to brand the outcome as theirs.
I wonder if all this will eventually turn towards quantum computing and be commandeered by the governments and wealthy parties that can afford it. Then we should truly be afraid of conspiracy theories.

Including the devices themselves :lol:

Talk about Raymond Kurzweil's "Singularity"

http://www.extremetech.com/tag/quantum-computing

[DJofSD]

No doubt both the realization of quantum computing and the control over access by governments will eventually be realized. No more problems with security after that.

[LottaKash]

remember the days when a 486 was considered the zenith of computer processing... :D

I remember how excited I got when I first got my "Northgate" 286 Screamer, running at 8mhz... :jump:

[hcap]

remember the days when a 486 was considered the zenith of computer processing... :DFirst machine I used was loaded with the CPM operating system and used the “SuperCalc" spreadsheet which I used before moving on to Lotus and eventually Excel.

Forgot the processor, but circa 1986

[DJofSD]

Probably a 286 but maybe a 386.

[Marshall Bennett]

I wonder if all this will eventually turn towards quantum computing and be commandeered by the governments and wealthy parties that can afford it. Then we should truly be afraid of conspiracy theories.

Including the devices themselves :lol:
Will advanced technology eventually seal our doom? Carl Sagan sure seemed to think so. He harped on it quite often. He's been dead a while now and never saw any of this. His contention was that advanced civilizations in the universe, if they indeed exist, run an amazing risk of self destruction by their own technical capabilities. Perhaps a reason deep space travel is virtually impossible to realize, and why we have not a shred of proof of any by anyone else. Nobody ever gets that advanced. :)

[Delta Cone]

Will advanced technology eventually seal our doom? Carl Sagan sure seemed to think so. He harped on it quite often. He's been dead a while now and never saw any of this. His contention was that advanced civilizations in the universe, if they indeed exist, run an amazing risk of self destruction by their own technical capabilities. Perhaps a reason deep space travel is virtually impossible to realize, and why we have not a shred of proof of any by anyone else. Nobody ever gets that advanced. :)

This is one of the "solutions" to the Fermi paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

"...the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization and humanity's lack of contact with, or evidence for, such civilizations."

[Marshall Bennett]

I've read that page a few times and each time my mind hurts afterwards. :)
Thanks, anyway.