Part Deux

Part DeuxIssue number 2 and I'd like to look back briefly at spintronics since there was an article on it last issue. It's been nearly 40 years since I read the first research articles on spintronics and while we've a few basic circuits as proven developments, we are mostly still waiting for materials science work to bring us the easily manufactured, small components we need to get this technology out of the labs and into real products. These problems are still slowly being resolved. The payoff is low power and high speed computing with little to no heat generation.If we were leaving this to humans only, I'd say we're still 50 years from a mass produced spintronic computer. With AI getting it's feet wet, who knows? Problem solutions are being iterated and tested at ever faster rates as we adopt AI and involve advanced simulations into scientific discovery work. We are on the cusp of a major shift in our pace of technological advancement and that is at least part of the point of naming this publication The Shift Register, as it will be documenting these changes. I hope you are enjoying the publication so far and please let me know if you'd like to see some other topics covered. New science and tech stuff of course, but I'm open to some other topic headings beyond what we have today. Good luck out there!Kudos to NotebookLM for the audio summary.