Computer and Device News

11 20 2011

Voice tools

• Google voice to voice translation– Speak press a button, instant translation– Listen to foreign speaker, press button for

translation– Works for 14 languages

• Mobile connections– 6 billion later this year – near world coverage

numerically• So translation is important

Mobile Connections

Quantum computers

• Using nitrogen vacancy diamond• Photonic quantum computing– Difficult to process and measure single photons

efficiently– Solutions uses lasers to drive coherent conversion

between states

Race toward exaflop computer

• Fujitsu (commercially available)– Scalable to 23 petaflops

• IBM Blue Gene/Q– Scalable to 100 petaflops

Communications

• Spin lasers

Massively parallel molecular circuits

Printable, wearable, stretchable

• Printed Logic with Printed Memory• Stretchable Graphene Transistors with Printed

Dielectrics and Gate Electrodes• Stretchy Skin-like Sensor arrays• Ultra-thin, ultra-flexible brain implants

Printed Logic wied Memory

Artificial Diamond Light Semiconductor

Chip models neurons at synapse level

Quad Core Snapdragon

Device Development

• Magnetic cloaking (anti-magnet)• Spin on spin computing• Weaving nanotube products• Flexible stretchable nanotube backplane

matrix• 10 billion bits per second transmission at 3

orders of magnitude less power