Nanocomputer

From the SL4 Lexicon:

nanocomputer:

A computer built using nanotechnology (manufacturing to molecular specifications). A lower bound on nanocomputing speeds has been set by calculating the speed of an acoustic computer using "Rod Logics" and messages that travel at the speed of sound; a one-kilogram Rod Logic, occupying one cubic centimeter, can contain 10^12 CPUs each operating at 1000 MIPS for a total of ten thousand billion billion operations per second. Note that Rod Logics are the nanotech equivalent of vacuum tubes (circa 1945), or rather, Babbage's Analytical Engine (circa 1830). Electronic nanocomputers would be substantially faster. We use the "Rod Logic" numbers because they're easy to analyze, and because 10^21 operations per second are sufficient for most applications Yudkowsky01.Template:Wikilink