Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 A new silicon-germanium semiconductor chip produced by IBM reached 500 GHz in tests recently, setting a new speed record for a computer chip. The test was conducted at 4.5 Kelvin (-451 degrees Fahrenheit), but the chip still reached 350 GHz at room temperature. It promises to start the next generation of powerful computing chips before quantum computing becomes feasible. http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=189500692 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane_alien Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 why oh why am i doubting that this thing has more than a few hundered transistiors... for a clock frequency that fast the chip is probably tiny and wouldn't stand up against other chips with regards to FLOPS. still, it would be pretty cool to play something on a 500GHz chip no graphics card required, superb physics etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bascule Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Looks like the transistor has some life in it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmallIsPower Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 That certainly is great news for researchers and large corporations, I wonder how fast a room temperature or liquid nitrogen computer would be. I suspected that the final electronic computers would be chryo-cooled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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