Konwersatorium im. J.Pniewskiego i L.Infelda

Magnonics is a prime contender for breaking the heat-induced log-jam that has paralysed computing speed for over a decade. It offers the triple selling points of ultra-low power dissipation, enormous potential speed and ultimate nanoscale realisation. Already, promising magnonic logic gate architectures are reported as performing very favourably. Conventional electronics is here to stay, so any such magnonic information processor will sit as a high-performance computing island in a sea of silicon infrastructure. Low power magnonic-electronic interfaces are already under development. However, the lure of magnonic computing goes far beyond the banal copying of conventional computing architecture and magnonic devices already exist that can perform functions which silicon cannot emulate. Rather than allowing hardware development to remain enslaved to software demands, Magnonics offers the possibility of entirely novel computing paradigms that maximally exploit its unusual capabilities. One such example is its potential for removing the traditional divide between analogue and digital computing to combine the power and speed of the former with the versatility of the latter.

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