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Also, we're flirting with the limits of Moore's "law" here. I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz
by bherms 16y ago
Also, we're flirting with the limits of Moore's "law" here. I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz. I guess I was right.
As you start to shrink transistors and the spacing between them, the chips get hotter, burn more power, and throw more errors. You also get electron "leakage" where the electrons inadvertently jump between gates, so the processors become less efficient and you have to run extra fault-tolerance to check for the errors.
Multi-core and bringing all the other components up to speed is the way to go for now until a newer technology comes, like quantum computing or light based processing.
- notyourwork 16y agoYou can overclock a processor above 4GHz with a bit of liquid nitrogen and some bios changes. ;-)
- mrb 16y ago"you'd never really see processors over 4GHz." IBM released a 5GHz POWER processor 2.5 years ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/
- ergo98 16y ago>I did a report back in high school on it and speculated you'd never really see processors over 4GHz. I guess I was right. I'm not sure whether you're being serious or if you're actually claiming some sort of advanced insight here. There has been speculation on the peak speed of processors for many, many years. I don't think they were consulting your high school reports.