Chilly Chip Shatter Speed Record

[Cyberus]

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

[Argo]

The ultimate in over clocking... :-D

[Piru]

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

[amigagr]

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:

[Lando]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those.

[Matt_H]

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

[dammy]

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

[weirdami]

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:

[HellCoder]

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.
 :-?

[Piru]

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 since early 80s. Many younger europersons haven't seen one, ever.

[Cyberus]

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

[golem]

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

[dammy]

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