Equation 3 · Part 1 · After Moore: The Adaptive Radiation of Compute
Symbol k_B
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where is Boltzmann’s constant. At room temperature — 300 kelvin, a reasonable stand-in for a chip’s operating temperature — plugging in Boltzmann’s constant’s exact SI value gives:
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process ↗
- [2] Experimental verification of Landauer's principle linking information and thermodynamics ↗
- [4] International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, 2023 Update: More Moore ↗
- [3] Quantum Foundations of Classical Reversible Computing ↗
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