How should the next generation computers be designed?

Question

We have a dual-core Pentium processor which
is replacing the old one. But, the development will not
be faster that way, because they still use electron
currents. We all know that light travels faster than
electron current. When they use laser flows instead of
electron flow using Raman Effect discovered by Sir
C.V.Raman, Nobel Laureate, the next big revolution in
making computers will take place. Some researchers in
U.S.A. are already working in this line.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan05/2912
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/18/MNGRBL7JE51.DTL

The next drawback in a computer is that the Numeric
Co-Processor in the C.P.U. works according to
arithmetic logic. We know that the result of
multiplying an eight digit number with another eight
digit number cannot be obtained in one step.

Ancient India knows a very unique method which gives
this answer in one step - the Vedic mathematics. If the
Numeric Co-Processor was to be designed using Vedic
mathematics, each personal computer will work like a
super computer even with the present day computer
hardware. And the super computers will work like
Mega Computers.

http://mathemajik.tripod.com/article/mathematics.html
http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/india_contribution/maths.html
http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~blee27/essays/ancient_mathematics.htm
http://www.lifepositive.com/mind/education/vedic-mathematics/vedic-mathematics.html
http://www.mindsay.com/tags/ancient
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/d749ca08fa6ff8be.html
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~nair/indianmathematics.php
http://www.mathematik.com/Indianmath/index.html

It is observed that the Raman Effect is 10,000 times
larger in silicon than in an ordinary glass fibre. The
silicon combined with the Raman Effect produces a
continuous laser beam that is most needed in computers.
The technology is being hailed as a breakthrough
because it vaults the last barrier preventing the use
of low-cost, high-bandwidth silicon photonics devices
in and around future computers and data centres.

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20061009/technology03.shtml

Lasers are already used to transmit high volumes of
computer data over longer distances between offices,
cities and across oceans using fiber-optic cables.

In principle, such lasers could allow the integration
of electronics and optics in standard-issue silicon
chips, rather than in chips made of exotic
semiconductors. If that happens, fiber-optic
connections now seen only in long-haul
telecommunications networks could finally come to the
low level PC also.

Intel exploited what is know as the Raman effect, in
which light scatters in certain materials in such a way
as to produce another, longer wave length. The idea was
to feed light from a separate laser into the chip and
have Raman laser light emerge.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8876-laser-chips-could-power-petaflop-computers.html
http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/142392-laser-chi...-power-petaflop-computers

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2006-09-18-chips-laser-light_x.htm

'Laser Chips' Could Replace Wires in Your PC

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127163-c,chips/article.html

The development lasers in chips is a result of research
at Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, and the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Commercializing the new technology may not happen
before the end of the decade.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2006-09-18-chips-laser-light_x.htm

Cray computers are already past
generation computers. My question
is about the genaration to come.

Answer 1

We really are not able to imagine.
My first PC in 1992 was -
RAM - 256 KB
Hard disk - 20 MB
CPU - 8088, 8 bit (I think)
CD ROM - what's that !!

My PC now in 2007 (after 15 years) is -
RAM - 1 GB
Hard disk - 400 GB
CPU - 3400+ 2.5 GHz, 64 bit
CD ROM - what's that !!
CD and DVD writer.

In office we got first Internet in 1995 - 64kbps leased line for whole office. Now at home I use 256 kbps broad band.

Was there any way to dream of present level in the year 1992 !!
No, simply NO.

I can imagine when my son would reach my age (30 years later) he would say his kids "You know in our childhood we use to play games in a funny looking computer with 3.5 inch CD with capacity of a minuscule 700 MB, how funny!!"

As per my guess future computer would be like -
1. It will be a processor which has learned to do mistakes.
2. Mostly laptop type and in one piece not like present day's 20 pieces of equipment and accessories are connected with hundreds of wires.
3. Key boards would not be there. It would be mostly touch pads and voice controlled.
4. Less power hungry
5. Present Hard disk type has reached its capacity limit. It would be replaced with some other technology.
6. Pen drive would improve just like anything. It would be used along with every equipment we use.
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10. I can not imagine further.................

Answer 2

HA! Trick question! The next generation will not be able to afford cars. But I see your point. Back in the day I could do a dandy job of gaping points and plugs by eye. One bought a timing light, cleaned off the markings on the front of the crank (back when cars had fans driven by a belt instead of the electric fans they have now, and before they started putting the engines in sideways...) loosen up the bolt holding the distributor in place and adjust the timing. One learned that Rochester carbs are crap because their top plate warped so one went to the junkyard and bought a better carb, bought a rebuild kit (gaskets and such) replaced the carb, adjusted the float in the float bowl. &etc What did all that cost? points and condenser, maybe a new distributor cap and rotor spark plugs timing light used carb rebuild kit Probably about $100, which was a lot of money since minimum wage for teens was $1.35-$1.65 /hour. But all that didn't have to be done very often. And then the car's good to go for a long time. Well, except for paying to have good used tires put on, which was $15 each but you only did that one at a time as needed. EPA regulations? If I told you what we did with the used oil, I'd have to kill you. But we only changed the oil in those old V-8s when the oil on the dipstick was black and gritty. My first car was a 1963 Rambler Ambassador station wagon. Which was about 10 years old when I got it. A friend owned it and it got impounded. I bought it for the impound fees ($42) and a can of gunk. My first (and unfortunately only) motorcycle was a 1971 Yamaha 350 R5. Used, it cost me $500 but Mad Man Muntz had the easy payment plan. Guess how many times a street racer can rebuild a 2-stroke engine? Well, that depends on if he conducted an experiment (for the Big Race) of putting a pint of model airplane fuel (didn't seem like the label said it had all that much nitro in it) to one gallon of gasoline (gas was 35 cents a gallon if I remember right) prior to the Arab Oil Embargo and the invention of OPEC) and melts a connecting rod (what connects piston to crankshaft).... Cost me $85 to take crankshaft to the shop and have a new rod installed. (But I beat a Kowasaki 900 in a 1/4 mile dragrace) The fool allowed me to talk him into a "from a standing start" deal and i was so infinitely faster off the line than those heavy 900s. Sucker! But I digress. I imagine the next generation will use their high tech knowledge (and there's this new thing called the internet) to 'simplify' the 10 year old Honda cars, defeat the computers by installing new chips, rip out all the useless junk the government makes Honda put on new cars now and proceed just like we did,, by reinventing the system.

Answer 3

Both of your 'we all know' statements are incorrect. Lasers are useful for data transmission and interconnections over distances much larger than within a processor. Lots of circuitry, power, and chip real estate are needed for signal modulation and detection. Very little processing can be done directly on an optical signal. Every computer design has many tradeoffs and compromises among speed, power, size, and cost. A one-step multiplier of arbitrary size is easily designed, but seldom worth incorporating into a microprocessor. There aren't many things about current microprocessors that are worth changing.

Answer 4

If "next generation" means the next incremental improvement, then they will be using 32nm extreme ultraviolet lithography on 450mm wafers to build multi-core processors that use materials that will leak significantly less energy making them even more efficient.

If "next generation" means the use of fundamentally new technologies like optics, those will probably first show up in the bus components of chips where signals must travel relatively long distances. The emitters, conductors, and detectors are getting closer to being constructed from silicon based materials and when they can be created by the same lithography process as the rest of the chip then it will be deployed.

But in my mind "next generation" computers are quantum computers like those being built by D-Wave Systems Inc. of Burnaby, B.C.

Answer 5

Yeah, I remember when I used a computer windows 95 , It had 2GB hardrive and 16MB Ram. 12 years later. Some computers has a 100x those figures at this rate computers should be able to accuratley predit global warming and stuff !!.Technology is increasing so fast that it is scary....

Answer 6

I don't know anything about computors, but I do know that when I am writting a paper, I wish there was a way to highlight what you accidently wrote in all CAPS and could change to lower case and vice versa. I spend way too much time retyping because of these kind of mistakes.

Answer 7

Future computer configuration is :
an
1.Nano core processor
2.20gb of ram.
3.A graphic card showing real life quality videos.
4.20TB of HDD.
5.All this in nano technology!!!

Answer 8

Octo core
Support Ram up to 8Gb.
HDD will go up to 5 TB each
Touch screen LCDs (available now)
improve on Voice recog tech (available now)

wow, tt streches my imagination

Answer 9

Ever hear of the Cray computers,, That what the U.S. buys for things they really need computer power.

Answer 10

I was just telling my husband tonight how new computers should have all the "accessories" built into them as one piece.
Webcam, reading light, keyboard and mouse all in one.
Laptops do it...why not desk tops?