Many microprocessor designers and other tech strategists are pretty certain that quantum computing is where microprocessors are headed.  Here is an intro to a video about how these futuristic processes work:

Lockheed Martin, NASA and Google all have one thing in common: they all own quantum computers. These quantum computers are superconducting chips which were designed by D-wave systems and were fabricated at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories.

NASA and Google share a quantum computer for use at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab using a 512 qubit D-Wave Two that would be used for research into machine learning to assist in using artificial neural networks to search through large astronomical data sets for extrasolar planets and to increase the efficiency of internet searchs by using A.I. metaheuristics on heuristical search engines.

See if you can get your mind around how this technology works in the video on page 2

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