Breaking Moore’s Law Nets Computer Industry 10-20

First a Snippet From The PC WORD Arcitcle 

 In anticipation of Moore’s Law becoming irrelevant in the next 10 to 20 years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) wants funding for research that could lead to a replacement for current silicon technology.

The NSF last week requested US$20 million from the U.S. government for fiscal 2009 to start the “Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law” effort, which would fund academic research on technologies, including carbon nanotubes, quantum computing and massively multicore computers, that could improve and replace current transistor technology.

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that can be placed on silicon, and its attendant computational capability, doubles every 18 months. The formula is credited to Intel cofounder Gordon Moore.

Carbon nanotubes could be the future, as I spoke about in my Nanotechnology article.  These carbon nanotubes could allow for smaller transistors  to be created,   research into Quantum Computing is also producing some interesting results, which I will write about in a future article.  There also are thoughts on improving software to allow better networking of thousands or millions of computers that act as one single processing unit.  Whatever the future holds for this industry, it will be interesting to see what happens in the next 10-20 years.

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