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> electricity is significantly slower As a rule of thumb, most signals travel at half the vacuum speed (√ε_r for FR4 is 2.15), with a slight variation due to t
by hengheng 12y ago
> electricity is significantly slower
As a rule of thumb, most signals travel at half the vacuum speed (√ε_r for FR4 is 2.15), with a slight variation due to the copper trace shape. So, 150 mm/ns or 6 inch/ns one-way. I love how we can say nowadays "That's not all that much, is it."
- Rapzid 12y agoMan, what ever happened to those fibre interconnects and micro transmitters Intel was working on? http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/07/28/intel-claims-optical-computing-milestone/1 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/07/28/intel-claims-op...