Comments on: A room-temperature spin amplifier

By: Medusa

Medusa — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:57:43 +0000

Another step towards RepCores. I think we should be emphasizing stepping stones towards this ideal, to get researchers going in the right direction. It’s likely the most realistic path towards achieving true technological resurrection.

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:19:59 +0000

This is tremendous news indeed! Moore’s law has several candidates to continue along its merry path: optical computing, spintronics, memristors, and potentially quantum processors (although in a sense a spintronic processor would be ‘quantum’, because spin is chiefly a quantum phenomenon).

If I had to venture a guess, naively, I’d say some kind of spintronic devices will complement our present hardware. Photonic devices have a chance only if some kind of transistor (or something that achieves the same effects through different means) is created.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:42:33 +0000

Where are all the comments? Aren’t you guys excited about this news? Spintronics will keep Moore’s Law on track. This will give us the processing power for self-replicating robots on the Moon, in the Lagrange Points, and all throughout the asteroids.

Of course, these robots will be able to do all our jobs.

Ya just gotta learn to take the good with the bad.

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 14:41:28 +0000

Are there any estimates for when we might see this ‘breakthrough of spintronics’, and how much more efficient at data transfer will it be?

When I first glanced at the headline, I thought that a room-temperature superconductor had been discovered! I guess the wait continues for that one. It will be a milestone.