Yeah, so, I stole that title from a digg.com comment… so sue me. I’m linking it at least!
IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit.
Apparently they weren’t astounded by the fact that it runs at 350GHz at room temperature? I guess because it is a very small chip consisting of just a few transistors. Gating and combinations will slow that puppy down quick. I’d like to see what a moderate processor, like a cell phone chip, can do before I start getting hopeful about PC chips being so zippy.
But, on the other hand, I would be damn happy with a 2x or 3x increase in cap speed because of this technology. I’m not holding my breath for the 100x increase. And who knows what these things will cost.
