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Emerging Technologies
A series of technological innovations that could change the computer industry
Moore’s Law has just recently celebrated its 40th Anniversary butconsequently it wasn’t all good news for the computer industry. There are a lot of questions doubting if the once thriving and most enjoyed technological conquest would continue beyond the 21st Century. Whether this is mere assumption or not, still, it sounds like a debacle especially when there is no foreseeable replacement to fill this gap. Moore’s Law is a core ingredient to the evolution of the computer industry; however, the technology behind Moore’s Law is now considered obsolete and could no longer handle the capacity of the present standards of the ever-growing computer industry. It is already predicted that transistors in computer chips will jump from 1.7 billion to 10 billion by the year 2012.
Circuitry congestion is becoming a dilemma and threatening the growth of the existing silicon-based digital economy. Technical problems such as heat build up, electrical currents leakage, crosstalk between wires, electrical resistance, traffic jam, data traffic bottlenecks between multiple processors within individual computers are now a major impasse; even the copper wires can no longer keep-up with the pace of speed, only, emerging technology could be the solution.
Quantum Wires as a result of nanotechnology are coming, and there is also Silicon Photonics, which would use laser beams in computer chips instead of copper, to remove among other things the barrier of speed and congestion. The Universal Memory is another development for celebration with its ultra-dense data storage capability flash memory in digital cameras and computer hard drives will be history. However, as a quick solution Intel has resorted to Double Gate Transistors to extend Moore’s Law before new technology is introduced.