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From the Ted Talk by Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future
Unscramble the Blue Letters
We've all experienced the frustration of an old smartphone or tablet grinding slowly to a halt over time under the ever-increasing weight of software updates and new features. And it worked just fine when we bought it not so long ago. But the hurgny srfaotwe engineers have eaten up all the hardware capacity over time. The semiconductor industry is very well arwae of this and is working on all sorts of creative stoliuons, such as going beyond transistors to quantum cmtiupnog or even working with tisotnrsras in alternative architectures such as neural networks to make more robust and efficient circuits. But these approaches will take quite some time, and we're really looking for a much more immediate soioltun to this problem.
Open Cloze
We've all experienced the frustration of an old smartphone or tablet grinding slowly to a halt over time under the ever-increasing weight of software updates and new features. And it worked just fine when we bought it not so long ago. But the ______ ________ engineers have eaten up all the hardware capacity over time. The semiconductor industry is very well _____ of this and is working on all sorts of creative _________, such as going beyond transistors to quantum _________ or even working with ___________ in alternative architectures such as neural networks to make more robust and efficient circuits. But these approaches will take quite some time, and we're really looking for a much more immediate ________ to this problem.
Solution
- transistors
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- computing
- software
- aware
Original Text
We've all experienced the frustration of an old smartphone or tablet grinding slowly to a halt over time under the ever-increasing weight of software updates and new features. And it worked just fine when we bought it not so long ago. But the hungry software engineers have eaten up all the hardware capacity over time. The semiconductor industry is very well aware of this and is working on all sorts of creative solutions, such as going beyond transistors to quantum computing or even working with transistors in alternative architectures such as neural networks to make more robust and efficient circuits. But these approaches will take quite some time, and we're really looking for a much more immediate solution to this problem.
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