Zero Energy Lightspeed Computing

Virutally energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses

This looks like one of the more promising next gen technologies. Although the switches work in a trillionth of a second, that's not actually faster than current transistors which average 3-8 picoseconds. The huge difference is that they are connecting transistors and memory at the speed of light and generating zero heat in the process. That means they could theoretically put at least 30 billion transistors on a modern chip, or about twice the total number in your average laptop, and instead of running in the microwave range of 5ghz, they would run in the terahertz range, or a thousand times faster roughly, on the wimpiest battery imaginable. Combined with the newer energy efficient displays a laptop like this would use almost no power and you would have to put it in the sun for it get warm.

The chips not generating any heat, means you could stack a hundred of them right on top of each other to produce a rather impressive supercomputer the size of a cigarette lighter. For gaming fans, just two chips like this stacked on top of each other could theoretically run something as powerful as a Star Trek holodeck.

 

Virutally?

Seriously? That IS how they spell it in the article

How did such on obvious error creep in like that?

What is this? The article has nothing to do with the journal its quoting