03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
 Dimensions of an Atomic Size Computer
 Dimensions of an Atomic Size Computer
If we somehow manage to make an atomic size computer, it would mean that the dimension, the linear dimension, is a thousand to ten thousand times smaller than those very tiny chips that we have now. It means that the volume of the computer is 100 billionth or 10^-11 of the present volume, because the volume of the "transistor" is smaller by a factor of 10^-11 than the transistors we make today. The energy requirements for a single switch is also about eleven orders of magnitude smaller than t...Folksonomies: computing 
Folksonomies: computing 
As described by Richard Feynman in 1985, with the benefits in energy consumption and processing power that come with it.




 
 