Fat Burger.
I ordered the original fat burger and sat down. As I munched on fat burger goodness, across the street I observed an abundance of residential and commercial growth along the Brentwood / Lougheed Highway corridor. Something big is happening and it's happening right here in this very area. I then started thinking about Intel.
I remember watching this documentary on the birth of Intel (the chip r&d / manufacturing firm); the film traced the history of its core founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Moore, as the common nerd would know, is credited for theorizing Moore's Law; a law that states the number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles about every two years (although evolution of the microprocessor is now reaching its apex). And Noyce, is often credited for inventing the integrated circuit (along with Jack Kilby). Their firm, prior to Intel was Fairchild Semiconductors, a company believed to have jump-started the growth of Silicon Valley. Anyway, before I go off on a tangent here, their baby the microprocessor revolutionised the computing industry and therefore the world.
With the binary bit calculating, silicon microprocessor on its way out, what is next? Answer: the quantum computing processor - a chip that calculates using quantum bits or qubits, 1, 0 or a superposition of both 1-0 at the same time.
Okay, so who's developing this chip? And if it is being developed, is the holy-grail of computing science finally within our grasp? Is there a holy-grail of computing science? I thought this was all just science fiction stuff?
Ya know, I can't answer any of your silly questions. But why don't you ask Google's R&D, or In-Q-tel, or Amazon. They would probably know.
I remember watching this documentary on the birth of Intel (the chip r&d / manufacturing firm); the film traced the history of its core founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Moore, as the common nerd would know, is credited for theorizing Moore's Law; a law that states the number of transistors on a microprocessor doubles about every two years (although evolution of the microprocessor is now reaching its apex). And Noyce, is often credited for inventing the integrated circuit (along with Jack Kilby). Their firm, prior to Intel was Fairchild Semiconductors, a company believed to have jump-started the growth of Silicon Valley. Anyway, before I go off on a tangent here, their baby the microprocessor revolutionised the computing industry and therefore the world.
With the binary bit calculating, silicon microprocessor on its way out, what is next? Answer: the quantum computing processor - a chip that calculates using quantum bits or qubits, 1, 0 or a superposition of both 1-0 at the same time.
Okay, so who's developing this chip? And if it is being developed, is the holy-grail of computing science finally within our grasp? Is there a holy-grail of computing science? I thought this was all just science fiction stuff?
Ya know, I can't answer any of your silly questions. But why don't you ask Google's R&D, or In-Q-tel, or Amazon. They would probably know.
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