Archive for April, 2010

3d CPUs

Welcome to 3d CPUs. Computer chips have always been flat – in 2 dimensions. In recent years, they have moved to “multicore” cpus, which are still essentially “flat”. The next stage in microprocessor design is to make use of the 3rd dimension – height. 3d CPUs brings together the advances of 3d computing power – with multicore and 3d cpu articles, 3d cpu videos, and general chatter about newer future computing in general. The technology is just starting, and is a natural progression from the multicore technology chips currently on the market.

Here’s what we learned from Ray Kurzweil about future chip designs. Computer microprocessor chips today are flat (although it does require up to 20 layers of material to produce one layer of circuitry). Our brain, in contrast, is organized in three dimensions. There are many technologies in the wings that build circuitry in three dimensions. Nanotubes, for example, which are already working in laboratories, build circuits from pentagonal arrays of carbon atoms. One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry would be a million times more powerful than the human brain.

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