All except photonics. Remember it's already been done with foundry techniques. It's just a matter of optimizing the manufacturing techniques for it.MSimon wrote:Coolant? Pumps? Do you know what that does to costs? And reliability? There is a reason it is only done in high end applications. Will the coolant stay in the system for 20 years? Will it need to be topped up? The real problem is chip design. Chips need to automatically idle when they are doing nothing. The GA144 is a good example of that. It is unclocked logic.
You may be unaware of this but making photons is a heat generating process. Absorbing them generates more heat. Sure you get electrons. But at the same energy as the incoming photon? And the electrons eventually lose their energy.
Sure - progress is being made. But I believe Moore's Law will plateau before these wonderful advances kick in.
Software may gain us a decade, unclocked logic another half decade.
None of the wonderfulness you mention is ready to be scaled up. So far they are small potatoes and cost a lot.
So does generating photons and absorbing them make as much heat as the bulk resistance in the transmission medium? Photons are pretty much lossless in these kinds of environments.
Maybe you forgot basic physics again.
You do know photons are energy, right? And you've heard of the Einstein E=mc^2 equation, right?
Where's this "heat" come from? And BTW, did you really mean to say that when objects give off photons, they get hotter? Really? Holy energy conservation violation, Batman.
I was just pointing out that there are other ways to go; you practically make my point in saying they're all clumsy. But you do so with such incompetence that I have to correct you three different ways.
ETA: you know I actually thought about this and I'd like to know how much heat LEDs make when they make light.
Looks like you lied again, or else you don't know diddly dog feces about electronics beyond resistors and batteries in some Radio Shack kit. Not even that; Radio Shack sells LEDs.
If I were you I'd never mention electronics again in my presence except with question marks. Because you don't know squat about it. And I do.
Not only that but don't criticize another article I link without reading it, and if you don't understand it I'd ask instead of mocking. I love making fun of people who are stupid enough to mock reality. And I've enjoyed doing it to you.