COMPUTER SCIENCE – COMPUTER CHIP SCIENCE
Jaan Raik:
Computers must undergo a revolution in order to continue their rapid development. Professor Jaan Raik has been the leader of the Centre for Dependable Computing Systems at TalTech and has held an interest in computers for decades. He works in the computer chip science field, where it is necessary to rack your brain in order to design faster, more complex and more sustainable chips. The research team led by Jaan Raik is one of the larger research teams taking part in EXCITE and has been highly successful in coordinating pan-European research projects. Estonian Centre of Excellence in ICT Research
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is opinion is that, in the near future, a major shift must be made in this field, perhaps even a revolution, because computers, processors, servers and everything related to it will have a rate of energy consumption which we cannot sustain. “Computers themselves only have one small step left before they reach the level of the human brain,” says Raik when discussing the power and
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