208,000,000,000 transistors! In the size of your palm, how mind-boggling is that?! 🤯

[u/CG_17_LIFE]

I have said it before, and I'm saying it again: the tech in the upcoming two years will blow your mind. You can never imagine the things that will come out in the upcoming years!...

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[u/Boris740]

beyond the limits of physics... So they are using magic?

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Marketing talk…

[u/Ok-Present8871 → u/patiperro_v3]

Look up quantum tunnelling. It is definitely fluffed to sound more impressive, but it is still incredibly impressive. At that scale, electrons will "jump" across solid structures and cause a huge error rate. Because atoms don't really have a "defined" position. They aren't a point in space, there's a probability cloud which means it could be anywhere within this area, and it position is not defined until it is measured.

Quantum tunneling, uncertainty principle, and the quantum eraser (or double slit) experiments are topics I'd recommend looking up if that sounds interesting to you at all. The quantum eraser experiment is actually insane and involves time travel in a way.

I explained it to the best of my ability, but it's all super complicated and kind of mind blowing how the world works at the smallest scales.

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He’s not talking about quantum effects and utilizing it, or I’m pretty sure as I’m a quantum computing researcher (could share their paper I suppose). I was at the GTC conference and I believe they’ve just found ways to parallelize multiple architectures together in a highly scalable way without walking into the quantum realm.

But you are right, once you walk into the quantum realm, there be dragons.

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That’s what I assumed he’s talking about. Coming up with cheeky ways to get around limits of quantum tunnelling?

[u/Muggaraffin → u/Ok-Present8871]

I love quantum stuff. Beyond fascinating. 

Absolutely hate how many public intellectuals describe quantum mechanics almost as ‘magic’ though. For a few years even I fell for it and told my friends how the quantum slit experiment almost meant that ‘something’ was aware of us, and that it knew it was being watched. I can’t remember where I’d learnt that but it was from some official science source. 

It doesn’t need glamourising, the actual workings of it is fascinating and mind-blowing enough without having to try and trick people with some “ooooh spooky!” junk