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What's the power of an "ultimate laptop" (of 1kg mass in 1L volume) (arxiv.org)
2 points by zecg on June 19, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



tldr:

"The answer to this question lies in future technological development, which is difficult to predict. If, as seems highly unlikely, it is possible to extrapolate the exponential progress of Moore’s law into the future, then it will only take two hundred and fifty years to make up the forty orders of magnitude in performance between current computers that perform 1010 operations per second on 1010 bits and our one kilogram ultimate laptop that performs 1051 operations per second on 1031 bits."




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