Future Trends in Computer Industry

Silicon Electronics is the staple food in the computer industry, but now researchers are exploring other methods to ensure the powerful computers.

Quantum computers is a theoretical device which use the properties of quantum mechanics, physics, which deals with energy and matter at the atomic scale.

In a quantum computer data will not be processed electronic transistors, as is the case with today’s computers, but also cells of atoms known as quantum bits or qubits.

“There is a new paradigm for computing,” said Artur Ekert, Professor, University of Oxford. “We calculate differently.”

Beat a unit of information is “1″ or “0″ in the conventional electronic computers.

Qubit can also be a “1″ or “0″, but in principle can and things at once – known as superposition.

This allows the quantum computer to work through many problems and solutions simultaneously.

“It’s like a massively parallel processing, but in one hardware”, said Professor Ekert.

“Complex Systems”

This has significant benefits, particularly to address the problems that a large amount of data or variables.

“With quantum computing, st for the attack on some of the problems on the scale of time in seconds, which could almost infinite amount of time with computers classics,” Professor David Awschalom from the University of California at Santa Barbara, told the web site of BBC News recently.

In February 2007 the Canadian company D-Wave systems States showed that quantum computers.

At that time, Herb Martin, director of the company said that the report represents “a major step forward in solving commercial and scientific problems that have so far been difficult to resolve.”

But many quantum computers in the world remains skeptical, especially because the company released very little information about the car.

The screen also impressive.

“It’s not quite what we understand as quantum computing,” said Professor Ekert. “These demonstrations have been resolved through normal computers.”

Nevertheless, Professor Ekert believes that quantum computing, finally old.

Then he said, will not be used, on the eve of the factory-desktop applications, but uses as a specialist search large databases, the creation of uncrackable encryption systems or simulations of atomic structure of materials.

“The murderer application, probably in fact in the development of new substances or complex systems,” he said.

adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/