Supercomputers of the size of matchboxes are coming within this decade. Scientists claim to have discovered how microscopic wires behave. And tiny wires thousand times thinner than one human hair (measured in millionths of a millimetre) will be responsible to bring the fiction like gadget.
The wires don’t behave too predictably, though. University of Edinburgh’s scientists who are working on the project feels that the odd behaviors of these wires pose problems while trying to wire and integrate into rings.
So, to study the peculiar behavior of the wires, scientists and engineers from University of Edinburgh have teamed up with associates from Germany and Italy and created a computer program that is slated to act as a soothsayer as far as these wires’ unpredictable behaviors are concerned.
Dr Michael Zaiser, of Edinburgh’s school of engineering and electronics, asserts,
The discovery should help ensure that wiring in electronic devices remains effective, even in a supercomputer the size of a matchbox.
This will help to make small devices much more powerful in the future.
Holding a supercomputer in the palm of your hand will one day be possible - and we are going to make sure all the wires are in the right place.
