(02-24-2014, 01:53 AM)MaJoR Wrote:chaosblade02 Wrote:like maybe in 20 years after quantum processors are in every home PC?
If you knew what quantum processors are, you'd know just how dumb this sounds. Quantum tech has some very interesting potential for research tasks, but it will never be useful for general purpose computing.
Well,
a) it's likely that, quantum computers or not, in 20 years there'll be a PS4 emu anyway;
b) the main reason for that actually being that in 20 years the hardware would be hacked - not because processing power of PCs would get high enough;
and c) there are still quite a few tasks done by home computers that would benefit from quantum processing. In fact, any task which can be broken up into parallel tasks would be sped up considerably by quantum computers. And those tasks aren't rare - think of modern GPUs with thousands upon thousands of cores. A quantum GPU would probably mean that display technology would be the main bottleneck in graphics quality. And of course, quantum CPUs wouldn't be useless either.
Although emulators don't tend to use too many cores, it seems, so they would probably not benefit from a quantum CPU. And I doubt that quantum computers are going to be so widespread in only 20 years. So, all in all, I'm not sure where the original statement sounds dumb or not. XD