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From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Bold future plans (was cellular automata)
Keywords: automata
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Date: 31 Mar 89 18:40:23 GMT
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In article <2105@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>, grnberg@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (David R. Greenberg) writes:
> 
> Recently, Texas Instruments gave a talk here at MIT.  They presented their
> long term "roadmap" for taking high speed, high density integrated circuits
> into the future.  This roadmap revolves around work they have been doing 
> in quantum effect devices.  At the talk, TI claimed that the future
> of microelectronics was in computing via cellular automata, using
> tiny quantum wells to implement the individual cells.  

It's always interesting to hear these talks, but you gotta take them with
more than a few grains of salt.  About 11 years ago TI gave my (then)
company a presentation on how bubble memorys were poised to take over
the world from dynamic RAMs...

	gordon letwin