IBM accelerates silicon to more than 500 GHz

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IBM today claimed the crown for the world's fastest chip, at least in terms of clock speed: The company said it was able to achieve frequencies "above 500 GHz" by "cryogenically freezing" the chip. And the company apparently does not want to stop there: Using silicon-germanium (SiGe) technologies, IBM is aiming for near-THz speeds.

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[sabot00]

First comment?

 

[alyoshka]

Lol I'm back to the past....5 years ahead of time..... and it's still not here.....
we're still at 4.5 GHz.... and it's already 2012....

 

[onanonanon]

[citation][nom]sabot00[/nom]First comment?[/citation]
And it would have been the last if it weren't for the necrolink! How long do these things stay archived, anyway?

 

[freggo]

THz Clock speed is nice, bur it is like a 1,000t oil tanker crossing the oceans at 200knots.
Impressive, but useless as a 300,000t tanker doing just 15knots will move more 'data'.
Bottom line, instead of having 1 super fact CPU it is better to have 1,000 slow cores.

And they should not be identical either; but a mix of specialized ones.
Audio cored, Graphics Cores, Database cores etc.
Than a program loading will request from the OS the mix of specialty cored needed to do it's job.
When the program terminates the cores will be returned to the pool and turned OFF until the next program needs some of them.
Saves energy too that way; compared to a 500GHz chip idling with nothing to do than running the Aquarium screen saver.

 

[billybobser]

So much for bulldozer records

 

[bin1127]

Bump!

 

[willwayne]

http://www.bulldozerrecords.com/ ?