New superconductor microprocessor yields a substantial boost in efficiency

Post by the8472 » Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 4:56 PM UTC

centimeter wrote: post #157

Enginerrrd wrote: post #80

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It's not about clock speed per se. It's about the lowest possible energy expenditure to erase one bit of information (or irreversibly destroy it by performing a logical operation). The principle comes about from reasoning about entropy loss in said situations. There's a hypothesized fundamental connection between information and entropy manifest in physical law. The idea is that if you destroy one possible state of a…

> The fact that it's only 38x the minimum is MIND BLOWING. It doesn't run at room temp. The difference is much larger than 38x. It's closer to 1000x.

Post by ebalit » Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:47 AM UTC

Jweb_Guru wrote: post #230

ebalit wrote: post #229

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Not commenting on Moore's law, but I don't see how the last part is true when GPU have become a main component of personal computing. They are in fact becoming more and more important with the need for AI inference and always more demanding rendering tasks (both in resolution and frame rate).

The vast majority of software isn't written for the GPU. That's still true today, and it will likely be true in ten years as well. Unless we reach a point where that changes (and most software can fit its restricted paradigm), we should compare apples to apples. If we were talking solely about GPU performance, I would be more inclined to agree with claims about "80x more processing power than 10 years ago" etc, thoug…