1. Most of my speed is from using higher clock rates and photonics.Neandertal wrote: Well I simply don't agree that micro processors will really get that much better in the future for the simple reason that we are very close to the physical limit of miniaturization for them. I think the limit will be about 4 times better than we have now and then quantum mechanics will begin to interfere and make anything smaller useless because the electrons of nearby atoms will effect the charge in the transistors. effectively making random changes to your data. We should see that still in our lifetimes.
These numbers still seem pretty small to me.
Only ~50x increase is from using smaller electronics, which is already proven to work in experimental setup.
and this assumes that the aspect ratios of transistors stay the same when using graphene based electronics.
my educated guesss is that we will at least get another 200x density increase from graphene electronics.
Spintronics will give that another boost, as you can double an single elevtrons information density by (at least) 2 by using not only its charge but also spin
2. As cha0zz already said, quantum computing moves this all to a completely different ballpark, as this will increase computational capacity another few magnitudes.
3.the numbers are close enough by far, compared to your earlier claim that we are of by 1E12 or so.
The small difference there is no fundamental science challenge anymore.
Its only engineering.
Its also completely ignoring any technology we cant even think of now.
Im pretty sure we know nothing in the grand sheme of things.