gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) (04/01/89)
In article <2105@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, grnberg@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (David R. Greenberg) writes: > > Recently, Texas Instruments gave a talk here at MIT. They presented their > long term "roadmap" for taking high speed, high density integrated circuits > into the future. This roadmap revolves around work they have been doing > in quantum effect devices. At the talk, TI claimed that the future > of microelectronics was in computing via cellular automata, using > tiny quantum wells to implement the individual cells. It's always interesting to hear these talks, but you gotta take them with more than a few grains of salt. About 11 years ago TI gave my (then) company a presentation on how bubble memorys were poised to take over the world from dynamic RAMs... gordon letwin