What does it take to reach 500GHz? -268.5°C.

[dutchmasterflex]

That's only a few degrees above absolute zero...

IBM overclocks chip to 500GHz

By Tony Smith 20th June 2006 09:14 GMT Boffins from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) have produced what they claim is the world's fastest silicon chip thanks to what must be the acme of overclocking. The researchers reached a clock speed of 500GHz by reducing its temperature to just 4.5° above absolute zero. The feat was part of the team's exploration of fourth-generation Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) devices, which IBM and GIT are investigation for future comms chip applications. The scientists wanted to see just how fast such a chip could be persuaded to run without malfunctioning or, in extreme cases, melting. If cooling a machine down to -268.5°C seems a trifle impractical, take heart from the boffins' other efforts, which saw the chip running at 350GHz at room temperature - rather better than the 2GHz commercial products for communications applications typically run at today. ®

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06...clocking_feat/

Pretty damn amazing if you ask me..

[SFDMALEX]

lol 500????damn

I was thinking 5ghz...and thinking that IBM are a bunch of retards, but 500damn....

[nickthaskater]

Wow...

/buys one

[dutchmasterflex]

^ haha..

http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsAr...C_0_US-IBM.xml

here's a morth indepth article about the technology and how they did it..

[saadie]

nice ...... but is the bus speed or the ram refresh rate enough to coupe up ..... hehe

[dutchmasterflex]

Of course, or else they would of never been able to reach 500ghz..

This new transistor technolgy is ridiculous... It will be implemented in every electronic with a processor within the next couple years..

Things are a bout to get even faster

[nickthaskater]

Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex Of course, or else they would of never been able to reach 500ghz.. This new transistor technolgy is ridiculous... It will be implemented in every electronic with a processor within the next couple years.. Things are a bout to get even faster

All the more reason to not bother buying a new PC anytime soon

[saadie]

^^ haha ..... the gears are not changed electrically .... they are changed manually :fuck: haha

[dutchmasterflex]

Originally Posted by nickthaskater Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex Of course, or else they would of never been able to reach 500ghz.. This new transistor technolgy is ridiculous... It will be implemented in every electronic with a processor within the next couple years.. Things are a bout to get even faster All the more reason to not bother buying a new PC anytime soon

You could say that at any point in time No matter what, next year there will be a new breakthrough in computer technology..

[nickthaskater]

Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex Originally Posted by nickthaskater Originally Posted by dutchmasterflex Of course, or else they would of never been able to reach 500ghz.. This new transistor technolgy is ridiculous... It will be implemented in every electronic with a processor within the next couple years.. Things are a bout to get even faster All the more reason to not bother buying a new PC anytime soon You could say that at any point in time No matter what, next year there will be a new breakthrough in computer technology..

Haha exactly, which is why my current PC is 3 years old

[evoWalo]

Now Apple had to go Intel... them switching to a PC chip, morons.

[Shinigami]

Rendering very complex scenes just got a lot easier (thinking about the film companies here and so on...).

Will be fun to play the games coming out in the next few years, especially if they surpass the look of the next bunch of games such as Crysis and the next Unreal.

[dutchmasterflex]

Originally Posted by evoWALO Now Apple had to go Intel... them switching to a PC chip, morons.

You do know that if the ipod didn't save their asses, they probably wouldn't even be around right?