"Besides nanotechnology, another candidate that could replace silicon in the 2020 time frame include optical computing, which harnesses laser light to do electronic computing."

Sounds like POET/PET to me (they just didn't know it was going to be PTI aka POET Technologies Incorporated, a small company from Canada, eh! :) and guess what, we have arrived 5 years earlier :D

cheers

great vid and very informative, listen cerfully :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgPRqIBen8U

celebration to the "end of Moore's law" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBrEx-FINEI

Dr. Chris Mack

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Profile SummaryChris A. Mack received Bachelor of Science degrees in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1989, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Mr. Mack founded FINLE Technologies, the developer of the lithography simulation software PROLITH, in 1990, serving as President and Chief Technical Officer until the acquisition of FINLE by KLA-Tencor in 2000. For the next five years he served as Vice President of Lithography Technology for KLA-Tencor. In 2003 he received the SEMI Award for North America for his efforts in lithography simulation and education. He became a fellow of SPIE in 2006, and a fellow of IEEE in 2010. In 2009 he received the SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin and spent the Fall 2006 semester as a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame. He has recently completed a comprehensive graduate-level textbook on optical lithography, Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography, published in late 2007. In 2012 he become Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3). Currently, he writes, teaches, and consults on the field of semiconductor microlithography in Austin, Texas.