I am posting the reply here, since this question and the questions preceding this one have nothing to do with Apple presentation.
Current technology resolves at 45 Nanometers. Admitting a transistor takes 90 nanometers, plus 90 nanometers for dielectric separation of components and circuitry, let us admit a 180 nanometers square per transistor. On an inch square of silicium, that is 141,111 square = 1,562,522,159. Add to that the fact that today’s processors are built in layers like floors in a building, and 2 billions seem hardly the limit.
At the turn of the 20th century, some scientists decided that the beetle could not mathematically fly. The beetle did not know, so it flew.
[quote=128469:@Payam Arzani]Is there a NOTHING for SOMETHING to exist?
What is NOTHING then, that through it all these worlds exist?[/quote]
This question may have been answered around 500 BC by Laozi (Or Lao Tseu) in the Tao Te Ching. Tao Te Ching - Wikipedia
In it, he explains that a tea pot exists only by the emptiness of the hole inside. If it was not hollow, it could not serve its purpose.
Exactly a point I was going to make. Computers as we know them could not exist without nothing. Since your binary 1 is represented by the flow of electrons in a conductor, binary 0 is represented by no flow of electrons (nothing).
Note, I say “Computers as we know them” because without nothing binary could still be represented by lets say 5v being binary 0 and 10v being binary 1, however computers would then double their power requirement and I imagine cooling would become a problem.
Thanks to technical progress we have fast multi-core cpu’s now.
Fine … but we also have software like Windows with a .NET framework on top of it, consuming huge amount of cpu-power because of inefficiency, actually doing not much functional. There is not much I can do with the old Pentium III with a 4MB ram we used to have in the early 90’s.
Ok, just sentiment.
While desktop cpus of a decade ago were very capable of running the productivity apps of the day, without the technical progress of the last decade music players, phones, pads and now watches were just a dream.
[quote=128999:@Joost Rongen]Thanks to technical progress we have fast multi-core cpu’s now.
Fine … but we also have software like Windows with a .NET framework on top of it, consuming huge amount of cpu-power because of inefficiency, actually doing not much functional. There is not much I can do with the old Pentium III with a 4MB ram we used to have in the early 90’s.
Ok, just sentiment.[/quote]
Even earlier the battle of the cool digital watch, the Sinclair ZX81 1k of crash n burn power… made a wonderful door stop
0 was very important with the old ZX, I spent many a frustrating hours trying to get one to move
Nothing is not really nothing and random is not really random. The teapot has air, voltages are not really 5 volts and zero volts eg 5 volts is “if the voltage is between 4.9 and 5.1”, that is to say a range with a certain error factor. Space is seething with stuff popping in and out of existence. Yet if you take the ratios of the nucleus of an atom to its diameter you are more accurate to say it does not exist than it does by a factor of 1:100,000. The difference is that “stuff” is information. A teapot is designed as is a computer. You can find the source of stuff but what is the source of information? wooooh…