The Light Ending of Electronics

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November 2018

The Light Ending of Electronics

UK scientists presented record achievements in the development of computer technology. The University of Manchester launched the most powerful computer on the planet maximally replicating the human brain. Unlike standard computers, the new product sends, receives and analyzes huge amounts of information in thousands of directions at once. So do human gray matter cells. It took nearly three decades to develop and implement a project called “Spiking Neural Network Architecture”. The ideologist of SpiNNaker, Professor Steve Furber, is convinced that this is a fantastic achievement using a billion nuclei in one machine, performing up to hundreds of millions of operations per second, according to the scheme of the human brain. Neuromorphic superfilm will allow scientists to simulate and study processes in various fields of knowledge, which cannot be done on traditional machines.

In the meantime, physicists from the University of Exeter have responsibly declared an upcoming computer revolution. They were able to tame the particles that can be “charged” by coding and transferring information, which would replace the electrons used now. Polaritons are a mixture of matter and light. Scientists have proved that polaritons could be controlled using light. Photonic machines will be many times faster and more efficient than electronic ones, since they combine the highest performance in speed and conductivity of all the materials known today.

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