Smaller, faster, cheaper - that was the trend in computing for the past 50 years. As microprocessor technology is hitting the limits of what’s physically possible, some researchers are exploring whether a new technology, ‘spintronics’, may be the way forward.
E&T (Engineering and Technology) Magazine, 12 October 2015
Cambridge University physicist Jason Robinson just might have a solution that would help us shrink our computers even further. His work is combining two of the hottest fields in solid state physics - superconductivity and spintronics. Until five years ago, this wasn’t thought possible, but recent breakthroughs show that taken together, these technologies might represent the future for super-fast large-scale computing.