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So what do the experts think about the Tachyum founder's claims, like that the chip is far faster because there are far fewer, and far shorter wires between the

So what do the experts think about the Tachyum founder's claims, like that the chip is far faster because there are far fewer, and far shorter wires between the transistors. Does this make sense?

naikrovek 8y ago
Shorter interconnects do make for quicker signalling, and the transistor count on a single core of an i7 is high because of all of the pipelines and lookup tables and all the things that make an i7 much more performant than an i486 would be at the same clock speed. So no. Fewer transistors alone doesn't make computation faster. Now, with those shorter interconnects, if they can get the CPU clock up to something like 10GHz then maybe they have something. Sort of. They still need to be able to talk to RAM quickly and so long as that is not on the same die as the CPU it will not be a fast communication bus. Not 10GHz anyway.