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Sooo, a 770 GHz processor? Do I understand it correctly? Jesus.
by Culonavirus 3y ago
Sooo, a 770 GHz processor? Do I understand it correctly? Jesus.
- yetihehe 3y agoIf using that flip-flop, whole processor will be closer to 100ghz (typically there are multiple transistors which need to stabilise before you have a result of computation). But probably those superconductors could enable even faster transistors and maybe we could get 1THz processors.
- aitchnyu 3y agoLike IDE ribbon cables gave way to sleek SATA cables, we could have another parallel to serial transition from silicon multicore crap to superconducting single core.
- jacquesm 3y agoNo, you'll get superconducting multicore because all that will happen is that the bloat will expand to consume the new cycle budget. This has already happened many times.
- dtx1 3y agoI'm looking forward to Chromium version 4201337 needing 20% of my 1Thz CPU to render simple text.
- regularfry 3y agoWe'll get superconducting multicore because as a first step everyone will just map what they already know to the new space. Which is fun.
- MayeulC 3y agoI suspect you'd still need very low temperatures to make this work, even with a high temperature superconductor: low temperatures reduce thermal noise, which may be an issue at such time scales (unless you pump a lot of energy per bit, which means high voltages (limits scaling) or current/capacitances (also limits scaling).