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The Long-lived Transistor

机译:长寿命晶体管

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On October 22, 1985, the "Science Times" section of the New York Times ran an article titled "Light, Not Electricity, Key to New Computers." No progress in computing with light was announced for several years, but in 1990 a report of an optical computer put together by AT&T's research laboratory inspired the headline "Is Optical Computing The Next Frontier Or Just a Nutty Idea?" in the January 30 Wall Street Journal. "Nutty" may be the wrong word; there are some reasons why researchers have pursued optical computers. Photons travel faster than electrons. But the AT&T effort could not measure up to well-established electrical methods and was the last gasp of serious commercial efforts into optical computing, although some theoretical, academic research continues. InfoWorld Media named the concept one of its "crackpot techriolo-gies that could shake up IT" in February 2008. Optical technology may eventually find some associated uses, such as for transferring huge data files, but it doesn't look like it will ever be a viable option to replace the transistor in the computing process itself. Why? What is needed to make a good computer device? Why do some things work as computing elements and others fail, in spite of being the focus of massive research and development efforts?
机译:1985年10月22日,《纽约时报》的《科学时报》栏目发表了一篇题为《光,不是电力,是新计算机的关键》的文章。多年来,在光计算方面没有任何进展被宣布,但是在1990年,AT&T研究实验室将一台光学计算机组装在一起的报告激发了标题“光学计算是下一个领域还是仅仅是个好主意?”。在1月30日的《华尔街日报》上。 “坚果”可能是错误的词;研究人员追求光学计算机的某些原因。光子的传播比电子快。但是,尽管一些理论,学术研究仍在继续,但AT&T的努力无法衡量完善的电子方法,并且是光学计算领域进行严肃的商业努力的最后一口气。 InfoWorld Media于2008年2月将该概念命名为“可能撼动IT的摇篮技术”之一。光学技术最终可能会找到一些相关用途,例如用于传输海量数据文件,但看起来永远不会像现在这样是在计算过程中替换晶体管的可行选择。为什么?做一个好的计算机设备需要什么?为什么尽管大量研究和开发工作的重点是某些事物却随着计算元素而失效,而另一些事物却失效呢?

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    《American Scientist》 |2009年第2期|134-141|共8页
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    Robert W. Keyes;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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