Will computer processors eventually reach a peak?

[¬./Anonymous¬]

Newer, stronger, and faster computers are always being built. Will there ever be a day when computers reach their peak and cannot become any more powerful? I doubt that they will always be able to get more and more faster/stronger forever, but I often wonder will there always be a limit with current technology..? Now its is managed creating multi core CPU's... But that also will reach to a limit shortly.. then we will see some different technology which very much different from current semiconductor based technologies.

 

Thoughts?

 

Edited January 26, 2015 by ./Anonymous

[*Jess♥]

nano circuits.

[Salkafar]

"There's room at the bottom", but once you get below a certain size, quantum effects are going to take their toll and switches and circuits will become less reliable (and overheating will become a problem long before).

 

Of course they are working on quantum computers that use qubits rather than bits. Once they get those to work we might be looking at a whole new vista of possibilities as regards speed...

 

But since nothing is infinite, eventually things will hit a limit. Although it might take a very long time. Then again, from our own point of view, computers might be infinitely fast because they perform any task we give them the moment we do.