Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of NanocomputersApril 1st,
2008 in Technology / Computer Sciences Hypercubes in two, three,
four, and five dimensions. (Images from Wikipedia) Multi-
dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building
blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny
elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re
familiar with every day, but by quantum properties. As Samuel
Lee and Loyd Hook from the University of Oklahoma explain,
microelectronic devices are continually getting smaller and
faster, in accordance with Moore’s Law. Already, integrated
circuits and transistors are reaching the nanometer scale,
although they still operate based on the physical properties on
the macro-scale. True nanoelectronics, the researchers explain,
are not just scaled down microelectronics, but devices that will
be dominated by quantum properties, and will therefore require
new architectures and novel structures. “Compared to today's
microcomputers, the main advantage