Extropic's Fundamental Advance

An extraordinary change, if it matures.

Our current computers are Von Neuman machines. They have arithmetic and logic units, memory, all those parts you already know if you’ve paid any attention at all to what powers those devices you use.

Quantum computers are the first major advance in eighty years. They’re touchy beasts, requiring care similar to a particle accelerator, including liquid helium cooling to thwart thermal noise.

Extropic is going the diametrically opposite direction - they’re using that noise to create thermodynamic computing. They’ve gone from liquified helium lab rats to room temperature systems that are available today, if you’re part of the cool kids club.

BLUF: These things are on the order of 10,000 times more efficient than the GPUs we’re using today. If they work at room temperature, they’ll also work at body temperature, and we take a giant step towards implants that will seem well nigh magical.

This is not as big a deal as Helion or one of their competitors putting end to my Mourning Mankind, but it will hit AMD and Nvidia as hard as fusion will hit coal plants. Unless, of course, those chip makers can arrange licensing deals …

And for bonus derp, look at all the cryptobots in comments flogging Corvix CRV, some new sort of cryptoscam.