Re:Hmm (Score 1)

i think the whole point is to put the heat that is already coming off the processor to good use. How does having a separate chip/device defeat the purpose? look at all the cooling technology on a processor alone...why would you force heat back onto the processor instead of a separate chip?? And i took "Provided that the thermal memory is well insulated" to mean that each unit of volume is separate from the others and insulated from them. if each unit is thermally separate then the heat won't diffuse between them. And even if this process is not as efficient as computing with photons, heat is always doing to be a by product here, so i don't see why it shouldn't be put to use. the point isn't to replace transistor computing, but to augment it...