ORLANDO — Here at the Uptime Institute Symposium, attendees asked the engineers from IBM, HP, Intel and AMD if there was some sort of top secret, magic bullet technology that would completely change the trend toward ever increasingly power-hungry processors. Is there some sort of secret innovation — carbon nanotube materials, quantum computing, whatever — hiding in a lab somewhere that will make the energy problem go away? The response was a unanimous “NO”. Solid engineering on the existing technologies is going to be the wave of the future for at least the next ten years. The experts said that even if a company publicly announced a mind bending innovation, it would take 10 years to get it into production, develop it to the point where it actually surpasses existing technologies and finally to get people to trust the technology enough to rely on it. So don’t hold your breath.