3 ms·A minor quibble: your unit of time should be nanoseconds.by yarg 6y agoA minor quibble: your unit of time should be nanoseconds.nitrogen 6y agoThat, or maybe clock ticksgarmaine 6y agoThat's what I meant. Speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s. Divide by 3Ghz (3,000,000,000 clock/s) and you get 10 cm/clock. Wave propagation in an actual conductor is slower still. Edit window has elapsed though.Piskvorrr 6y agoSo, essentially, the physical die size and c impose a hard constraint on tick propagation? Whoa!garmaine 6y agoYup. Only way to go faster (single-core speed) is to shrink smaller, and reduce coordination between cores.