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Article #1132Bold future plans (was cellular automata)
From: Gordon Letwin
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 18:40
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 18:40
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In article <2105@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, grnberg@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (David R. Greenberg) writes: > > Recently, Texas Instruments gave a talk here at MIT. They presented their > long term "roadmap" for taking high speed, high density integrated circuits > into the future. This roadmap revolves around work they have been doing > in quantum effect devices. At the talk, TI claimed that the future > of microelectronics was in computing via cellular automata, using > tiny quantum wells to implement the individual cells. It's always interesting to hear these talks, but you gotta take them with more than a few grains of salt. About 11 years ago TI gave my (then) company a presentation on how bubble memorys were poised to take over the world from dynamic RAMs... gordon letwin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!microsoft!gordonl From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.electronics Subject: Bold future plans (was cellular automata) Keywords: automata Message-ID: <1195@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 18:40:23 GMT References: <968@rpi.edu> <2105@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 15