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Title: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Cyberus on June 21, 2006, 07:19:44 PM

Taken from bbc.co.uk

The world's fastest silicon-based microchip has been demonstrated by scientists in the US.

The prototype operates at speeds up to 500 gigahertz (GHz), more than 100 times faster than desktop PC chips.



To break the world record, the researchers from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology had to super-cool the chip with liquid helium.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5099584.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5099584.stm)

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Argo on June 21, 2006, 07:47:51 PM

The ultimate in over clocking... :-D

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Piru on June 21, 2006, 08:42:55 PM

Well, it ran 350GHz at room temp, so just 42% OC.
Nothing to write back home about...

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: amigagr on June 21, 2006, 10:26:10 PM

a good reason for hyperion to delay the release of os4 a little bit more, just to wait these chips to be available on a a1 like mobo  :crazy:  :crazy: :crazy:

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Lando on June 22, 2006, 12:00:25 AM

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Matt_H on June 22, 2006, 01:03:37 AM

I bet watching a slow-motion macro video of one of these chips self-destruct due to a cooling failure would be pretty fun...

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: dammy on June 22, 2006, 04:38:19 AM

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a good reason for hyperion to delay the release of os4 a little bit more, just to wait these chips to be available on a a1 like mobo

Since AMD is a major customer of IBM's chip technology IP, I'd be betting on AMD in writing a few fat checks (Euros spell it how, "cheques"?) if this is all for real application.  Actually, if AMD does purchase the license from IBM and also buys ATI, this could be a very interesting next two years.  Wonder what the bus would have to look like to keep the CPU and GPU happy.

Dammy

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: weirdami on June 22, 2006, 05:59:52 AM

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Wonder what the bus would have to look like to keep the CPU and GPU happy.

Forget what it looks like. What matters is its size and how much liquid oxygen you can fit inside it. :-P It would be the worlds fastest portable computer, in more than one way.  :crazy:

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: HellCoder on June 22, 2006, 07:31:26 AM

It isn't a chip, it was a single transistor, atleast that's what I read yesterday somewere. This article is indeed talking about a chip.
 :-?

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Piru on June 22, 2006, 08:09:10 AM

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I'd be betting on AMD in writing a few fat checks (Euros spell it how, "cheques"?)

Who knows.... Most europersons haven't seen one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque#The_decline_of_cheques) since early 80s. Many younger europersons haven't seen one, ever.

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: Cyberus on June 23, 2006, 02:27:19 AM

I write cheques all the time, it gives me three days  leeway :-D

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: golem on June 23, 2006, 11:56:27 AM

I wonder if it is fast enough to run Windows Vista? Maybe a bit sluggish   :lol:

Title: Re: Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record
Post by: dammy on June 25, 2006, 12:51:52 PM

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I wonder if it is fast enough to run Windows Vista? Maybe a bit sluggish

If you want Vista to be snappy at 350 GHz, you may have to wait for the quad core release. :-P

Dammy