Digital computing based on silicon and the conventional architecture is reaching its limits owing to fundamental physical limits, economic considerations, and reliability issues. In domains such as weather forecasting, bioinformatics, robotics, and autonomous systems, researchers and industry are reconsidering computational principles and pursuing new paradigms such as quantum computing, biologically inspired computing, and nanocomputing.
Source: Radical Next-Gen Computing Guest Editor’s Introduction | June 2015 – IEEECS