Prototype chip: 500Ghz at 5 Kelvin, 350Ghz at ambient

lewicronlewicron Glasgow
edited July 2006 in Hardware
Greetings all.

I came across this article whilst Stumbling the other day. Might be old news to some but it's quite interesting reading, I thought it might be of interest to some of the short-media punters, too.

Big worderup to one and all,
Lewis :)

Comments

  • lewicronlewicron Glasgow
    edited July 2006
    I suppose a link would help, eh?

    http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2158731/500ghz-frozen-chips-menu-ibm
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited July 2006
    I remember reading this, and also another article on it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't have a chip, per say. I thought it was a single transistor that they managed to get working at these speeds. I imagine it's still just a shimmer on the horizon of imagination for chips at these speeds. Still, it shows just how far we could possibly push silicon at one point.
  • lewicronlewicron Glasgow
    edited July 2006
    I'm not sure - it's referred to as a chip in the article. Then again, the article may be innaccurate. In either case the object of the research appears to be exactly what you said - to test the limits of silicon.

    I wonder when we can expect to see an Athlon +1000000 hit the shelves, though.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited July 2006
    Even if it's only one transistor, what kind of circuit and componants give it the clock signal?
  • lewicronlewicron Glasgow
    edited July 2006
    bothered wrote:
    Even if it's only one transistor, what kind of circuit and componants give it the clock signal?

    Actually, entropy was right - i think it is only a transistor. There's a bit more about it on the Georgia Institute of Technology website:

    http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1019
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