Intel Researchers Create Tri-Gate Transistors

[~Shard~]

Tubes suck!

I thought it was the other way around... 😱

 

[BlueRevolution]

I thought it was the other way around... 😱

Well, yeah. They blow too.

 

[SPUY767]

Does Tri-Gate mean we will finally move from Binary Computing to Ternary Computing? 😉

Switch on... switch is between... switch off... etc...? 😀
Yes... maybe... no... etc...?
White... gray... black... etc...?


1012010010202102010002222202012202020200120021

Base 3 computing systems? That would require a re-thinking of every logical system we have today. Currently the answer to every question is yes or no. In the future will it be Yes no or maybe? who can say for sure. I'm thinking its going to be less of a Woz level topic and more of a Hawking level topic. Carbon nanotubes are currently tricky little devils. the problem with them is that the only wat to arrange them is one at a time. You can't grow them in a single place for instance. Each has to be "Assembled" and placed individually. For even the simplest wristwatch sized computing ships, this is an insurmountable task. There's also molecular cascade computing which can be used to simulate a logic gate that is only tens of nanometers wide. Again, Molecular cascades must be set up and can only perform one calculation making them anything but practical. The third area of future chip research makes use of electron spin states. An electron spins as it moves around. If one could control the electrons spining to guide it and keep it from bumping into things, one could foreseeably reduce the resistance, power consumption, and heat generated by a chip, while increasing its power and efficiency handsomely.

Pie in the sky right now I'm afraid.

On a Base 3 Number system, assuming the same decimal values for ASCII characters, Hello would be represented by the following.

02200 10202 11000 11000 11010

72 101 108 108 111

or, in binary

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111

It seems more efficient, but first we would have to devize storage media, volatile and non-volatile that could support the numbers. i.e. we would need an HD whose molocules could be flat one way <_, erect |, or flat the other way _>. Very complex stuff.

I am a total tool. Bored, I actually read the article. Boy do i feel like an idiot. Thinking that I was actually giving some insightful information. I essentially parrotted what the article said. Foolish me. I shall read the article before posting from now on.

 

[zv470]

SPUY767... well, what I'm waiting for is Analog computing, let's go beyond this discrete way of thinking, binary, ternary, they are all limited. Computers should be able to compute at infinite precision. Then we wouldn't have to worry about 32bit vs. 64bit cores etc... heh 🙂

 

[scibry]

great

this is great news. and i like that there's competition. and it's amazing that they're below 40 (unit) in size.