Mmm.. 100 Gigahertz?

[Ender]

In 10 years the average silicon chip will likely contain a billion or more transistors and run at speeds exceeding 25 billion cycles per second. Already, exotic, high-performance chips, such as one made from silicon germanium that was recently announced by IBM, can exceed speeds of 100 gigahertz.

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Am I reading this wrong, or have they already developed and built a single processor which can run at 100 ghz, no less from very very expensive materials?

 

[etalns]

Incredible read

 

[yakko]

Yeah but when will they have a fast one?

 

[jamison]

Excellent article. Technology like this and the people performing the research are just incredible.

 

[glen]

My best friend got a PHD on the topic of Silicon and germanium for chips.
Let me ask him about this and get back with you all.

 

[Nefrodite]

i wonder what wonderful pornographic use will be developed to harness all this power

 

[FelixDeCat]

Im sure with a little voltage and cooling Ill get that puppy running at 120 gighertz - no problem.

 

[aka1nas]

I am not sure if that is a fully functioning usefull processors or just a few ALUs and transisitors etc.

 

[KennyTheGreat]

2fast 2fast 2fast!