Has technology come to a stand still?

[Upendra09]

I am talking specifically about CPUs, when will we break the thz barrier? will ever mature past ghz? before we used to make chips to be faster now we make them smarter, so will just continue to make chips smarter or will we make them be faster the fastest people run their CPUs right now is around 4.8 ghz when will we go past 5 ghz and break the thz barrier.

moreover will we need that speed? and for what?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Maybe we can use CO2 cpus, thus curbing global warming heheh

 

[Upendra09]

what do you mean pure? like filtered? yeah probably because all the iron and other minerals are gone

 

[randomizer]

By pure I mean H20 and no added colours, flavours or preservatives. Contaminants are what make it really conductive, especially salts. Stick a voltmeter into a circuit which uses a glass of water and then stir in some salt and watch what happens. Electricity requires positive and negatively charged particles, and salts in water split into positively/negatively charged ions. If I recall chemistry classes correctly, water alone does separate into hydrogen and oxygen ions but not enough to make a very effective circuit.

 

[cjl]

True - more accurately, water splits into hydrogen (H+) and hydronium (HO-) ions, but not in any significant quantities.

 

[randomizer]

Hydronium, I do remember that now 😀

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

I want to see my next cpu madw ith unobtainium, now thatd smoke these old sillycon chips

 

[Upendra09]

Maybe we can use CO2 cpus, thus curbing global warming heheh

we would never have to cool them we would have to heat them

 

[parisha]

Technology has not come to a stand still. Game production and what people buy may drift toward or away from PCs, but who cares. We should see exascale supercomputers within 15 years and reliable quantum supercomputers within 30 (numbers pulled out my ass). Eventually we're going to leave von Neumann chips even on the personal computer market.

 

[Upendra09]

von Neumann?

 

[yannifb]

von Neumann?

He means conventional chips like what we use.