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Meet the Next Processor


gdaunton

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blog-0529015001397169186.jpgThe next processor is going to be very, very powerful.

Current processors use a series of very very small electrical "switches" to dictate one of two possible states: closed or open, or in computer speak, a 1 or 0. The computer collects these various 1s and 0s puts them in order and interprets them. This basic raw computer language is called binary and is the driving process behind all computer functions. So the more switches in a processor, the more powerful it is.

So why is the next processor going to be so much more powerful? Well just recently scientists have figured out how to make the transition from tiny wires to using single photons and atoms. That's right scientists have figured out how to use atoms to alter the state of a photon and vise-versa. So instead of nano meter sized switches we will have switches the size of an atom. Crazy.

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Nah son, quantum computing.  Now that's cray.  Though because it isn't a binary based system it would require a fair bit of re-architecturing of modern operating processes (more than it would require otherwise)

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