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Literature-South t1_j9lfxq2 wrote

Reply to comment by UniversalMomentum in Google announces major breakthrough that represents ‘significant shift’ in quantum computers by Ezekiel_W

We're at the point with chips that they're so small that we're running into issues with Quantum tunneling causing errors. Silicon for chips is really at its limit. Moore's law has slowed considerably because of this.

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Deadboy00 t1_j9lh8vl wrote

True. But engineers have come up with some clever ways to get around it and still offer performance gains.

Quantum computing is for problems that don’t have a clear solution. Classical computing isn’t going anywhere even as we look far into the future.

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MINIMAN10001 t1_j9mwubg wrote

I mean the whole point of "Moore's law is dead" was that... Moore's law, is in fact dead. It wasn't the end of scaling, but the end of the self fulfilling prophecy which they targeted as the rate of scaling for decades has run its course.

It's not the end of transistor scaling, but instead the end of Moore's law, the golden age has come to a close and odds are the respective companies have already been working years at what they consider to be the solution going forwards.

AMD is looking to stack compute with memory. Nvidia looking into AI based image scaling.

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mannaman15 t1_j9n912q wrote

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