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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by nwah1 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:42AM (#11253560)
Here's some possibilities:

Stacked 3D chips (HBM, etc), Heterogenous computing (OpenCL, Vulkan), Optical computing, Memristors, Graphene-based microchips, Superconductors, Spintronics, Quantum computers, Genetic computers (self-reconfigurable)

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by exDM69 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:02PM (#11254954)
Heterogenous computing is already used in AlphaGo (and your smartphone). 3d chips will come to mainstream devices in a few years, but will give "only" a modest performance boost, say 2x or so.

The rest of the technologies you mention have great potential but will they be available in a smartphone in one decade? I don't think so.

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Re:AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of fi... by jakub_h on Saturday March 19, 2016 @10:50AM (#11318739)
You might ultimately only need some specialized "neural processing instruction set" for either the GPU cores or for the CPU cores. Or at least, I don't see any obvious obstacles to that.
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