Ben Zwycky Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 Scientists reach 0.5 THz, say 1THz possible at room temperature 0.35 THz at room temperature isn't bad for starters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolferz Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 LOL If they keep upping the speed of these things, pretty soon you'll be able to compute and microwave your hotpockets at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 From my understanding the processor has to be function specific... it can't alternate tasks at that speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Schultz Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 I guess I'd like to see where you got that idea about this chip, $ilk, because your statement flies against my understanding of CPU's (OS's add "task switching" -- the CPU is doesn't know about or care about what it runs). Nor did I read anything in the linked article that implied that to me. You have a link for further reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Schultz Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 If IBM (or someone else) can mass-produce this kind of transistor for a production CPU one day, transistors operating at 30THz should be possible. That ought to translate into CPU a wee bit faster than what we have today... (Edit) Link to IBM press release for the original topic of this thread, for your viewing pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest $iLk Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Joel Schultz: I guess I'd like to see where you got that idea about this chip, $ilk, because your statement flies against my understanding of CPU's (OS's add "task switching" -- the CPU is doesn't know about or care about what it runs). Nor did I read anything in the linked article that implied that to me. You have a link for further reading? /. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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