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Quiteron superconducting switch acts like a transistor

MAY 01, 1983

With the advent of very‐large‐scale integration of microelectronic circuits comes the promise of enormously powerful computers; 104 circuits or 106 bits of memory per chip are reasonable prospects. What is required of circuit elements if we are to advance by one or two orders of magnitude beyond the 107 instructions per second that characterize today’s most powerful general‐purpose computers?

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