Tag: hardware

Siftables

cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too.

Memristor minds

a fundamental element of electronic circuits, predicted in 1971, is now being used to build neurons in hardware. leon chua will probably get a nobel prize for his prediction.

Home-built CPU

I had stumbled onto the world of the homebrew CPU. To create such a computer required a detailed microarchitectural design, custom instruction set design, custom software tools like assemblers and compilers, and of course a custom circuit board. I decided to build a homebrew CPU computer of my own. It was a big mess o’ wires.

200x faster Ray Tracing

Caustic will deliver an average 20x increase in the speed used to create 3D imagery for film and video, game development, as well as automotive and consumer product design. The second generation of Caustic’s technology, due early in 2010, is expected to offer a 200x speed-up over current graphics products.

Real time raytracing should be fun.

Quantum cellular automaton

Quantum dot cellular automata are a proposed improvement on conventional computer design (CMOS), which have been devised in analogy to conventional models of cellular automata introduced by John von Neumann.

the technology to reach zettaflop performance

The concept of a memory device based on self-organized quantum dots (QDs) is presented, enabling extremely fast write times, limited only by the charge carrier relaxation time being in the picosecond range.

IMP Gate

Stan has figured out a way to implement all logic functions without negation. 2-terminal devices are much easier to assembly on the nanoscale, using simple crossbars of metal, and/or self-assembly techniques. It is easy to implement all logic functions using only NAND or NOR gates, but not with just an AND or OR gate. He found the premise for this in a 160 year old philosophy book, and he calls the new gate IMP.

Petaflop

An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

that’s 5% of a human mind, or 5% towards the singularity 🙂

Malicious Circuits

You bake the malware right into the hardware, then release the hardware into the wild. With keystroke loggers, spamware and trojans built right into the chip itself, you’re home-free against software-based detection.

Moore’s law to 2029

that would be 1 zettaflop (10^21 FLOPS). a human brain has been estimated at 10^15 FLOPS.