Is POET losing the race?

Qualcom and Intel have both announced new faster chips, featured here in other posts, whose sintilating performance bothers you Johnny. The short answer is 'you aint seen nothing yet' based on POET'S predicted performance.

I have read both gee whizz sheets and certainly in the case of the Intel article, its clear that the standard problems of over clocking causing heat to be generated, which then requires special cooling measures, demonstrates silicon's problem of being at the very edge of its performance envelope. Note the article is about gaming machines.

The Qualcom article is another kettle of fish since the chip is aiming at the smartphone market. The stand out feature being all the hot features packaged around the new fast chip. In POET'S case it can be designed with those features on board the chip leaving spaces freed up on the chip. Which begs the question what are you going to put in their stead - even more mouth watering features?

The truth is that we can presently only imagine how POET will effect the market it is aimed at. However, given the ingenuity out there, significant benefits of speed at less power (which removes cooling issues), with on board memory that can be switched between different types, amongst other uniquely POET design features that can be added on chip, provide a toolset for for fertile minds and engenuity leading to a new world order of game changing products.

Dont look at POET as competing with current CMOS Silicon based products. POET is the equivilent of an Industrial Revolution in integrated circuitry. A new process giving a totally new way of engineering to meet our increasing dependency on computers.

One final thought. Joel Hruska's Intel article justfies the production of more power producing more heat needing more power to drive the specialist cooling fans for unproductive gaming. Think of the cost to the planet in heat gain and energy required with silicon. Think that POET chips operate at 5% of the power of Silicon. Think can we allow such silicon inefficiency.

So who are you going to bet on to win the race?

Sulasailor