We are reaching the end of progress in traditional silicon-based computing; so we should use non-traditional silicon. While there are other alternatives, none of them are currently commercially available or realistically developed the way silicon is. Currently, we have successfully prototyped various methods for non-traditional silicon-based technologies, such as 3D chip stacking and multi-core processor design. This article will discuss the benefits of using non-traditional silicon and how other "solutions" to ending traditional silicon are not developed to the point of being a true solution. Other “solutions” are DNA computing, optical computing, molecular computing, and quantum computing. These “solutions” have limitations even before they are commercially available. For example, the current development of DNA computing will not solve our problem, because it is very expensive and you have to pay someone to program the DNA so that it can become what it needs to be. Optical computing will not solve the problem because it has major disadvantages such as: cost, size, alignment accuracy, thermal stability, manufacturing, lack of design software for creation and the need ultra-low voltages (optical computers). Additionally, Mark Ratner, a chemist at Northwestern University who is generally considered one of the grandfathers of the field, doubts that molecules will ever compete directly with silicon in complex computing tasks making molecular computing useless (Rotman). Quantum computing will not solve the problem. current problem because no one yet knows how long it will take a true quantum computer to develop or how many functions it will perform precisely by the beginning of...... middle of paper ......ense Tech RSS. Military.com, March 17, 2014. “The entrepreneur purchased an “optical computers”. UNCW. University of North Carolina Wilmington, nd. “An optical computer is an” Preskill, John. “Quantum computing: advantages and disadvantages. » http://www.theory.caltech.edu/. California Institute of Technology, nd 1998. . “Quantum Computers Will Be Too Expensive.” Ramanathan, RM “Intel Multi-Core Processors.” Pogolinux. Intel, nd. Seffers, George I. “National Security Boosts Quantum Computing Research.” SIGNALS magazine. SIGNAL online, October 2010. "No one yet knows what a functional quantum is ”