[ExI] Computing Heat problem solved?

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Terahertz computer chip is now within reach
Mar 25, 2018

<https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=49784.php>

Quote:

(Nanowerk News) Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team
have created technology that will enable our computers—and all optic
communication devices—to run 100 times faster through terahertz
microchips.

Until now, two major challenges stood in the way of creating the
terahertz microchip: overheating and scalability.

However, in a paper published in Laser and Photonics Review
("Non-Volatile Silicon Photonics Using Nanoscale Flash Memory
Technology"), Dr. Levy, head of HU’s Nano-Opto Group and HU emeritus
professor Joseph Shappir have shown proof of concept for an optic
technology that integrates the speed of optic (light) communications
with the reliability—and manufacturing scalability—of electronics.

Optic communications encompass all technologies that use light and
transmit through fiber optic cables, such as the internet, email, text
messages, phone calls, the cloud and data centers, among others. Optic
communications are super fast but in microchips they become unreliable
and difficult to replicate in large quanitites.
Now, by using a Metal-Oxide-Nitride-Oxide-Silicon (MONOS) structure,
Levy and his team have come up with a new integrated circuit that uses
flash memory technology—the kind used in flash drives and
discs-on-key—in microchips. If successful, this technology will enable
standard 8-16 gigahertz computers to run 100 times faster and will
bring all optic devices closer to the holy grail of communications:
the terahertz chip.
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So when the time comes, maybe heat dissipation may not be such a big
problem in Jupiter brains or Dyson sphere computing???

BillK