And we thought 45nm was amazing...
Atom Transistor to speed up computers | Taking the quantum leap

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"An international team of scientists have created a tiny transistor that could one day help quantum computers process impossibly large amounts of information.
The researchers are the first to make a transistor's electrical current pass though a single atom in a controllable way, another step towards the quantum computer chip." - ABC

So I'm assuming this constitutes Moore's Law being broken once again, when they become viable enough to be cost-effectively placed on to circuit?

And it looks like they are using the big bad semiconductor industry monster known as "Quantum tunneling" to their advantage.

I hope Moore's Law never ends...

- Luke.

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- Luke.

Or you could look at it from another angle: If Moore's Law applies, how long will it take for computers, based on this technology, to reach the stores.
Quantum leaps in technology usually takes some time to be cost effective in main stream products.

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From an article in New Scientist I learned that Google is using a quantum computer made by D-Wave to recognize cars from photos. D-Wave has a BOINC project called AQUA@home which I am running on my Linux box. The AQUA site did not mention the New Scientist article. I was the only one to mention it in a post.
Tullio

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I hope Moore's Law never ends...

Quantum computers are really a whole 'nother thing than the computers you are used to.

They promise to be able to do certain tasks astoundingly faster than traditional machines of reachable technology. Some of those tasks are even interesting ones (decryption looks like it might really work out). But far more so than even with massively parallel machines, high speed at the thing it is good at does not translate to high speed for everything.

But don't hold your breath waiting for one to run Windows, or BOINC for that matter.

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What about the important information - how much credit will it produce? :-)

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What about the important information - how much credit will it produce? :-)

Or how many frames/sec you can get with Solitaire! These are things we need to know!

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

On the AQUA message board "Quantum computing" there is a post by a D-Wave scientist explaining things more clearly than in the article in New Scientist.Also theregister.co.uk carries an article on Google and D-Wave.
Tullio

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And we thought 45nm was amazing...
Atom Transistor to speed up computers | Taking the quantum leap

Excerpt:
"An international team of scientists have created a tiny transistor that could one day help quantum computers process impossibly large amounts of information.
The researchers are the first to make a transistor's electrical current pass though a single atom in a controllable way, another step towards the quantum computer chip." - ABC

So I'm assuming this constitutes Moore's Law being broken once again, when they become viable enough to be cost-effectively placed on to circuit?

And it looks like they are using the big bad semiconductor industry monster known as "Quantum tunneling" to their advantage.

I hope Moore's Law never ends...

- Luke.

Does this mean that in the very near future, I will have Bluetooth embedded in my head?

Everything is better with Bluetooth. Imagine - a PAN in your head!