Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers

Future ideas that pack ever more computing capacity into a given volume include spintronics, quantum computing, carbon nanotubes. It’s good to see a big name such as Intel take seriously Kurzweil’s ideas on accelerating progress, ...

Spin Computing

These two different states can be used to represent a “1″ or a “0″ - the bits of information used by all computers. Basic spintronic devices are already used in today’s computers. For example, most hard drives today use a “spin valve”, ...

Intel predicts singularity by 2048

Computing power is another area that looks set to leap to another level, with advances in spintronics, quantum computing, and carbon nanotubes. No doubt some of the technologies will fall by the wayside, but then who knows what will ...

Intel touts progress toward intelligent computers

Future ideas that pack ever more computing capacity into a given volume include spintronics, quantum computing, carbon nanotubes. Long live CMOS And CMOS itself still has some legs, Rattner said, with recent progress shrinking the size ...

Spintronics : Magnetic Bars, Magnetic Randon Access Memory (MRAM ...

Computer designers are trying to pack more computing power onto microchips by assembling transistors closer together. According to Moore’s law transistors in an IC and the processing power doubles... To read this full article, ...

Utah researchers showed that information can be carried by spins ...

University of Utah physicists successfully controlled an electrical current using the "spin" within electrons – a step toward building an organic "spin transistor": a plastic semiconductor switch for future ultrafast computers and ...

Utah researchers suggest OLED efficiency not so hot

The researchers were also looking into spintronic/quantum computing and found they could control a current via the spin of an electron, but that is neither here nor there. [via Physorg]

AFRL-Funded Scientists Use Spintronics to Power Quantum Computers

The scientists' work has already contributed to the new field of semiconductor spintronics. By subsequently using spintronics in quantum computing, they will be able to control electrons and create higher-speed technologies not possible ...

Novel 'spintronic' devices developed to make computers more powerful

Washington, Dec 7: British researchers have created novel 'spintronic' devices they say might lead to more powerful and permanent data storage chips in computers.

Purdue Professor Puts New Spin On Quantum Computer Technology

Purdue University physicists have built a critical component for the development of quantum computers and spintronic devices, potentially bringing advances in cryptography and high-speed database searches a step closer. ...

Ferromagnet imaging technique could enable 'spintronic' devices

By implanting tiny “ferromagnets” onto processor chips, researchers expect to create small electronic devices and computers that never need to boot up. Ferromagnets are magnets made of ferrous metal such as iron, and are used in common ...

Semiconductor lasers can be downsized using plasmonic collimator ...

Focusing semiconductor lasers usually requires bulky optical lenses acting as a "collimator." Researchers have now demonstrated a plasmonic collimator that utilizes grooves etched directly into the semiconductor laser facet. read more.

Spintronics

By exploiting this spin property, in a field called spintronics, computer scientists and physicists have the potential to revolutionize the basis of computer processing and storage technologies. Spintronic devices are smaller ,more ...

Spintronic quantum gates

Using spin to carry out all optical quantum computing has also appeared as a viable and intriguing idea. The advantage of the all-optical scheme over the electronic scheme is that we do not have to read single electron spins ...

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Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter. “The work, while significant in a fundamental way, could also lead to advances in new kinds of fast quantum or “spintronic” computing devices”. (tags: sci tech computing) ...

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The work, while significant in a fundamental way, could also lead to advances in new kinds of fast quantum or “spintronic” computing devices, of potential use in future electronic technologies, the authors said. Slashdot Slashdot it! ...

Spintronic Hard Drives?

New battery technologies that increase battery life by a factor of ten, 'transparent' aluminum, and medical imaging that rivals what even ten years ago would have seemed miraculous will soon become commonplace. Goodness knows computer ...

Revolutionary "Racetrack" Memory Computer Technology Breakthrough

Spintronics might sound like a particularly loud techno DJ, but it's an advance in computing technology that could lead to a revolutionary new memory. All the speed of flash memory, all the size of hard disks, and none of the old-age ...

spintronic devices

... which makes spintronic devices particularly attractive for memory storage and magnetic sensors applications, and, potentially for quantum computing where electron spin would represent a bit (called qubit) of information. ...

Microelectronics Technology Alert. Optical Computing Moves Forward ...

In this issue, we look at advances in photonic devices on board computer chips, a spintronic discovery regarding carbon nanotubes, the outlook for graphene electronics on silicon, high-performance inkjet-applied organic transistors, ...