Cell microprocessor is out dated a quantum gates are too?
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Interesting and will have to study more.
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Supercomputer? That term is a bit outdated.\nFollow this link and you should be able to find everything you need.
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Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL) is a class of digital circuits built from bipolar junction transistors (BJT), and resistors. It is notable for being a widespread integrated circuit (IC) family used in many applications such as computers, industrial controls, music synthesizers, and electronic test and measurement instruments.
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In certain low volume and high speed circuits, transistors will always have their places. ALthough their are now many more radio chips.\nMIKE
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first, you get a government grant. Then you figure out all the physics issues with the underlying technology. Finally, you realize that quantum computing is still just a dream.\n\nSeriously though, we have not yet figured out the underlying physics of how to get a quantum computer to work. Once we do, it'll still be years before we can make that technology mass-producable. At this point in time, I think we'd be lucky to see quantum computers being as common as the computers we have today within our lifetime.
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Now come on, I remember the computer world when everything was based on vacuum tubes, before transistors & microchips.\nI can still remember HP Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Compiler, et al.\nWin 3.1 was actually a great program in it's time.\nIt, and the other stuff MS developed to run with it, made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.\nIt couldn't have been as bad as some seem to remember.
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The transistor is an implementation of a Logic Gate.  It is a physical manifestation of a mathematical construct.  Put a charge here, and this other charge is allowed to flow.\n\nFirst we used mechanical relays to implement logic gates, which were clunky and prone to failure because they consisted of moving parts.  Then came the vacuum tube which also used electricity and had no moving parts, but were also space consuming and prone to oveheating.  The transistor was our next implementation of a Logic Gate, and were cheap, small, required little energy to operate, and required little maintenance because they are 'solid state'.\n\nI should note strictly speaking, the last time I was in the Boston Computer Museum, I saw a calculator built wholly from tinker toys and string.\n\nThe transistor became the fundamental building block of all logical implementations.  With the advent of the transistor, mathematical ideas could finally have the potential to be fully expressed as a practical reality.  Electricity then continued morphing from being a source of energy into a source of information.
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for what? there are so many microprocessors that your question cant be answered. be more specific in your question.
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Hard to say considering computers are updated very often. Take in the fact all the different companies out there. but here's something to ponder on.\nNewest computer model will help with design of future speedy electronics\nIn the past three years, more and more chip manufacturers have adopted a computer model created at Berkeley to design and simulate the operation of new integrated circuits -- computer chips -- before going to the expense of fabricating them. The BSIM, Berkeley Short-channel IGFET Model, can model the operation of single transistors or millions linked in an integrated circuit, like a computer processor. \n\nNow EECS professor Chenming Hu, the model's lead developer, has developed a new version, BSIM4. The model was released last week for use by the semiconductor industry. \n\n"It paves the way for engineers to design computer chips with blinding speed and wireless electronics that communicate at higher frequencies," said Hu.
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There's both an explanation as well as a diagram\nof a 2 input AND gate built just from transistors at:\n\nhttp://tams-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/applets/cmos/cmosdemo.html
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I bet it will be nanomachines.  Microscopic machines that work at the molecular level will be crucial in the biomedical fields and in new tech innovations that we use everyday, like today cell phones.  Did you ever see that add for microsoft where it was in the near future and this girl was jogging and she got a video conference call from her dad over her sunglasses? He brought up schematics of art works he was thinking of buying and talking to her while she was jogging... well thats all going to be possible with molecular computers.  Unfortunately though, so will other really bad things, we'll just have to see how it goes.
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The truth table is easy:\n\nABC . . . OUT\n000 . . . . 0\n001 . . . . 0\n010 . . . . 0\n011 . . . . 0\n100 . . . . 1\n101 . . . . 0\n110 . . . . 0\n111 . . . . 0\n\nConstructing the circuitry from logic gates would be a bit more work.
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Any computer that is out of date would be considered this.\n\n\nThis will exist every year as new technology comes along and makes what we now have obsolete or what some consider a dark age computer.\n\nA dark age computer might still serve your needs.
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It is a semiconductor, so would probably be good for machinery like Silicon. Most likely it would be used for computers and lasers somehow.
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The biggest one and most interesting is future alternatives to standard CMOS process technology. CMOS is predicted to run out of steam in a few years, i.e. feature size and speed will hit a limit dictated by physics not technology. What are the alternatives ?
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A logic gate is an arrangement of controlled switches used to calculate operations using Boolean logic in digital circuits. They are primarily implemented electronically (using diodes, transistors) but can also be constructed using electromagnetic relays, fluidics, optical or even mechanical elements.
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I don't know if I believe that. \nI still have a toaster. \nAnd I use it! Although it isn't much improved in the last 50 years, it has been such a good product that nothing has replaced it.\n\nWe keep adding more capabilities to the mix. There are a lot of things that can still be done with this technology, and the technology is always changing. \nI think we are not going to see the computer go away. I think we may call it something else eventually, but it will be a computer. We used to call a thing a computer when it had far less capabilities than it does now.\nI think the next step in it's evolution will be personal monitoring of our body and it's functions. A kind of intermediate medical care.\n\n(I never did buy a Toaster Oven. Wonder what that implies about my technological views today?)