Landauer limit

Etymology
After, named after German-American physicist.

Noun

 * 1)  A theoretical lower limit on the energy consumption of a computation, derived from Landauer's principle.
 * 2) * 2012, Rolf Drechsler, Robert Wille, Reversible Circuits: Recent Accomplishments and Future Challenges for an Emerging Technology, Hafizur Rahaman, Sanatan Chattopadhyay, Santanu Chattopadhyay (editors), Progress in VLSI Design and Test: 16th International Symposium, Proceedings, Springer, 7373, page 385,
 * The figure shows that today's technology is still a factor of 1,000 away from the Landauer limit and that the expected CMOS development will reduce this to a factor of 100 within the next 10 years.

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