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by **imprez** on Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:58 am

I wonder how much this will cost to us. Maybe till it reach there i'm like a marries man... hehehe..

by **Nintendud** on Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:29 am

It won't happen (anytime soon, anyway o_o). Clockspeed is not a measurement of the speed of a processor. Look at AMD's processors. They are clocked lower, but perform much better than Intel processors that are clocked higher.

Also, think of all the heat that would emit. It's crazy even thinking about it. It would literally melt the metal around it.

by **phaseon** on Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:47 am

i think this would probably require a really REALLY cold room and or cooling system to cool something of this speed would requiere something close to absolute zero temperature

by **m4rk0** on Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:47 am

CPU with 500 GHz woow. :> That will happens after some 1000 years. Laughing

At such time, hartshorn will fully replace current fans and coolers, and hartshorn will be standard, just becouse necessary for extreme cooling.

by **Samppa** on Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:06 am

Hartshorn? Ammonium bicarbonate that becomes a gas when heated?

eh?

by **imprez** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:04 pm

hehe.. well, i read it in the newspaper that ibm is testing it and its a success. I wonder ibm website publish it or not that they are doing the experiment...

by **imprez** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:07 pm

Found it guys...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060622-7117.html

by **Raven** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:28 pm

Because these SiGe circuits are performing analog processing of a high-frequency radio signal, the transistors that make up the circuits have to be able to switch at the same frequency as the radio signal that's passing through them. The faster these transistors can switch, the higher the frequencies they can be used to process. So a phone that operates in the 2GHz spectrum needs an analog RF chip that can operate at 2GHz; likewise, a radar device that operates in the 24GHz spectrum needs an analog processing circuit that can operate at 24GHz, and so on.

By making SiGe BiCMOS transistors that can operate at ever higher frequencies, IBM and others hope to enable the wireless industry to produce electronics that effectively utilize new portions of the radio spectrum.

Wow, this is really good stuff GA Tech is trying to work on. The idea of producing electronics that can utilize new portions of the radio spectrum would be a huge breakthrough. I wonder how long it will take to them to start beta testing this type of equipment?

by **whoeverest** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:44 pm

I realy dont think the 500GHz CPU will be ever made.. It's not the frequency that makes the CPU faster, other things make bigger deference in speed then just the frequency. Nice idea though Smile

by **h4x0rDude** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:25 pm

i cant believe it...is this really true????

by **Steve** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:27 pm

doubt theres gonna be any 500 ghz processors any time soon,, were only up to like 6ghz >.< and if they do come out with that it will be as expensive as a yacht tbh

by **imprez** on Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:35 pm

No worries guys, if IBM ever succeeded the research, they will only use it for themselves. Anyway, it needs a very icey cooling tempature to maintain the 500ghz chip processor. Household don't have those equipments. Razz

So, let's stick with some 4-6 ghz processor at the moment.. We aren't some scientist that need a total pump up super duper fast computer don't we...yet Razz

by **Samppa** on Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:29 am

Err, I'm not sure what the research on the matter is, but I still find it difficult to believe that ammonium bicarbonate could ever be used succesfully as a coolant.

As for the topic, who the hell is seriously going to need a 500 ghz processor?

by **imprez** on Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:01 am

That's the point Smile

Any more comment till will leave it case -=CLosED=- Razz

by **St.Jimmy** on Sun Aug 06, 2006 1:40 am

as a (more) final explanation, it is a silicon-geranium chip cooled with liquid helium and overclocked from 350g to 500g. it is made with modern low cost methods too.

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