Diamond Processors

DisvengeanceDisvengeance
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I recently read an artical and it was about how these people found a new way to make diamonds. Not the fake kind that people buy there wives, but these are real diamonds, worth about 15000 and costs them less than 100 to make, It said pentium is thinking about starting to make chips out of diamonds instead of silicon, because the diamond chips can run at temps that would melt silicon. Thought you guys would find that interesting :)

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Right. They're synthetic diamonds, and the crystalline matrix is identical to the real deal. Jewellers are unable to tell the difference. When mass produced, manufacturers can turn a profit for as low as $5/karat.

    //EDIT: <S>Pentium</s> Intel.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    If it is the same article I read (Wired.com) then it was a good read. Sometimes I wish Back to the Future was real and I could travel in time to see what we're going to have, then just take the stuff back in time about 50 years so that today we'd have even more advanced stuff. Do that a few times and we'd all have holodecks in our homes. OH YEAH! :D
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited October 2003
    Yeah the I read the article in Wired magazine
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    whats the point of running it at higher temps...ohhh yeah...the new intels with the lego like stacking design and the hot as nething chip...
    *queue thrax with his heatsink pic from that thread*
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    You couldn't need a heatsink on the diamond die. You would definitely want to put something over it though so as to not accidentally touch it, unless you want your skin to melt instantly.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    Well I dont stick my hand in the computer, esp while running.

    Just as long as it doesnt get so hot that it melts the ZIF socket.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    Monnin, it wouldn't have to be while it's running, or even 10 minutes or 30 minutes later. Ever touched something that had been heated up to 300F or higher? It's hot for quite a while even after it is taken away from the source of the heat. The CPU would remain hot for quite some time after turning the power off. Hey, we're talking about tempuratures hot enough to melt silicon, or close to it. Imagine what those motherboards would have to be made out of.

    Ahhhh, the stuff of dreams.
    If Thrax pines about being the #1 folder I'm sure he has to pine about this stuff. :D
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited October 2003
    That's where the liquid nitrogen cooling rig comes in! Only $1299 and refills for $30 something dollars :p
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    a2jfreak said
    If Thrax pines about being the #1 folder I'm sure he has to pine about this stuff. :D

    You have no idea. :D
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    How could they make a chip from diamond, it's an insulator isn't it?

    bothered.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    The substrate.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Is there a link to the article? It'd be interesting to read.

    bothered.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    CPUs cool down rather quickly tho, at least to handling temps. There is not much material to them.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2003
    thats an interesting concept, i would like to read that
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    I read an article where you can have your deceased loved ones cremated and turned into a diamond via the same process. They take the ashes and compress them under extreme heat and pressure and make a diamond. Collect all your dead family members and pets take em down and have em make a processor out of them...

    Really get your family members folding...

    omg I just made myself sick.. whats wrong with me...

    Gobbles
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Gobbles said
    I read an article where you can have your deceased loved ones cremated and turned into a diamond via the same process. They take the ashes and compress them under extreme heat and pressure and make a diamond. Collect all your dead family members and pets take em down and have em make a processor out of them...

    Really get your family members folding...

    omg I just made myself sick.. whats wrong with me...

    Gobbles

    HAHA I remember that too.

    The thought of this diamond synthesizing is kinda wierd. If itis true the Diamond will be dirt cheap soon enough ;) What will we have to buy our future wives!?

    Damn women...:ninja:
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited October 2003
    Bothered: http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2907&highlight=diamond
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited October 2003
    I sense a job spike in Organic chemistry (carbon based chemistry) :)
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited October 2003
    Cheers a2jfreak, Interesting stuff the future innit?

    bothered.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Great. Diamond-based CPUs. This implies that they're just going to get harder to cool. NOW how am I supposed to run them at-or-near room temperature on air cooling? ;D
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited October 2003
    i bet for that water cooling will become standard
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    Well we as humans are carbon based and if you cremate a human carbon is whats left. Diamon is 100% Carbon molecules arranged in the stongest shape, the hex.
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited October 2003
    you guys dont really have to worry about cooling, diamonds can handle extreme temps that would melt anything the motherboard would be made of (except for diamonds, thatd be one pimping rig), so theres really no need for cooling.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    What about everything the diamond chip is plugged into? :hrm:
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited October 2003
    They could try to mix a diamond and metals together kind of like cermets (metal and ceramics) that way its conductive and still had alot of the heat resistant properties of the diamond, then that could replace the silicon and everything could be made out of that substance (if possible) and then you wouldnt have to worry about cooling. :p
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