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IBM Creates World's Fastest Semiconductor Circuits
Todd Heidesch writes: "'IBM announced it has created the world's fastest semiconductor circuit, operating at speeds of over 110 GigaHertz (GHz) and processing an electrical signal in 4.3 trillionths of a second.'
IBM expects the new technology to be pumping out 100 gigabit/sec network switching chips by the end of the year (on an optimistic schedule, I presume)." dr_zeus contributes a link to this Reuters article running on Wired (also fairly thin) on the release, writing: "Granted, this isn't a PC chip, but one wonders how long it will be before we hear 'dude, you've got a 110GHz Dell!'"
A beouwolf cluster of these things! hehe sorry yall i've just always wanted to post that.
100 GHz computing should hit in about 10 years.
--Blair
yeah! Java 4EVA!
Dude, no Dell - I want a Beowulf cluster of those!! :)
-raph
You know for whom this post is, don't you?
(That's right, Jessica Alba!)
But imagine the fun Steve Jobs will have at Macworld 2005 .... :-)
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My partner, Sean, worked at Cisco for a while, before the economic implosion, and heard some things about 100Gbit networking projects in the works. It'll be really sweet to see this hit the market in a couple of years.
Dude, your 110GHz Dell consumes 450kW, and requires its own diesel generator...
Something for www.tweakers.net? ;-)
The cover has 3 desktop machines 'burning rubber' and racing towards a finish line. The title is something like "Breaking the speed barrier, Intel 386 33MHz!"
It's a neverending journey, this technology trap we find ourselves in.
I really wonder what architecture a chip with semiconductors like this has. I garantee that this won't be in a Wintel type machine since IBM supports the PowerPC and RISC architecture. This won't make it into any desktop computing applications anytime soon, but it is a good glimpse into the future technology behind computing.
As to the super-fast network speeds, that's great, but will it ever make TW's RR service quit letting rooted Win2crap boxes probe my ports 24/7?
dude, you've got a 110GHz Dell!
Sure, but what with Dell's "we'll only sell Intel chips" license agreements, it'll probably be running a Pentium 7 with a 1000-instruction pipeline and "predictive stalling," it'll cost $10,000 just for the processor, and it'll be slower than my Duron 750. :-)
---Windows 2000/XP stable? safe? secure? 5 lines of simple C code say otherwise!
At 110GHz, light travels less than 3mm in one clock cycle -- less than the width of the processor, I presume. And if it's accessing memory from a RAM chip 10cm away, it'll be waiting close to a hundred clock cycles to get anything back.
is in their ability to save power. From what IBM is saying, is that their chips can be run at say only 20 - 40 ghz and consume a hundred times less power then a chip built with todays processes. So you'll be able to get the same or more processing power out of these chips for less enegry.
At 110 ghz, a PHOTON only moves 2.7mm so figure that the actual signal propagation is like 2/3 the speed of that and you see that the signal can only travel 1.8mm in a clock. So, these chips are not going to be all that great for CPUs at 110 Ghz. Much better for signal processing likein routers or something.
Now I can get rid of my pot-bellied stove and start using my PC, lower emissions, more heat, and a space saver!
That means ~1.29mm at C (speed of light), so about 0.9mm in reality. Wow, those better be some short circuit traces!
And Steve Jobs will still claim that his 2 Ghz G6 is "twice as fast" on some obscure benchmark.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Now maybe I'm completely wrong here - if I am please correct me - but I got the impression that the higher the mega/gigahertz that your processor is running, the more power it needs. Would a 110 gigahertz computer send my electric bills sky high, or would this be a trivial concern?
What's the standard IBM response? 10 years to market, IIRC. Taken the time to fully develop the technology to manufacture more than one transistor in a lab, and distribute it as part of a chip.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
100 Gigabit network?!?! Soon I'll be able to download my big-boy smut from the newsgroups in no time at all!!!!
Ahhh...progress!
Chris
Hook up such a chip to the center of consciousness for a powerful being. Please reply.
-- Hexadecimal.
Hopefully after Steve's voice deepens and they have to find a more intelligent spokesperson.
psxndc
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Call me stupid, but why can't they use the same material in PCs to increase the chip speed? Are there some limitations/incompatibilities other than the comparitively slow speeds of memory and I/O (I guess we can all see why I never got very far in that EE major...)
they have pda's powered by these things?
xnesteax
Gigahertz don't matter!
Look for AMD 110000+ XP Processors
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When in engineering school (a couple of years ago) my professor declared that we are moving towards the end of the speed and size improvements of microchips, because soon the assumptions aboout newtonian physics, on which circuit design is based on, will stop being reliable.
Usually you dont have to worry about quantumn effects (electrons tunneling and such things), because there are enough electrons to statisticaly average out the quantumn effects into the classical model.
But when you increase frequency you usually have to decrease the size of the components (so transistors switch faster). But if you decrease size too much you will not have enough electrons passing trough your circuit, to ensure the signal follows classical laws.
Well I guess the quantumn barrier was a lot further than i thought it was.
Or maybe IBM are not decreasing the size of their transistors but increasing voltages to make circuits switch faster.
bet you were wrong intentionally to provide some irony and appear intelligent.
I don't know what you're smoking, but i want the Dual 110 GHz board overclocked to Dual 150 GHz =)
Which I believe states that transister count doubles every 18 months, and I have noticed that MHz count on Intel CPUs tend to follow the same line, we should be ready for this speed CPU(Given Intel's trend) in our desktops in another 8.25 years, better known as Q3 2010.
Dogbert was hired as a consultant to name the company's brand new product. He said that he had a computer combine the best words from astronomy and technology. The result? "Uranus-Hertz." It was banned from at least one newspaper.
can't be far behind?
A SiGe process is an fudge to a bipolar technology process which is an addition to a more standard digital process. This means the devices are not your standard digital logic FET devices. The devices are most likely NPN vertical bipolar junction transistors, with the SiGe implant. The logic gates would then be standard complementary logic (CML) structures. Technology Description
First of all I suspect that this technology is simply too expensive for consumer chips. Even if it could be done cheap, I think they would need completely new fabrication facilities to make those chips, because the technology is based on a different compound. Fabrication facilities are not cheap and companies like to use the current ones enough to make them profitable before jumping ionto new ones. I also suspect that these chips might need a lot of power. That may make them unusable for home computers.
Boy those communists are long winded. No wonder they have been relegated to the past (forever hopefully).
Did you know that P4 has a couple of pipeline stages that do nothing but propagate signal? (yes, they pipelined the wire ...)
The Raven
The Raven
While I can't say what the actual physical limits will be on a 110 GHz electron based chip, I do know that calculations such as this are flawed. While the maximum speed of an electron may be the speed of light, the maximum speed of an electron through a circuit in a single direction is nowhere near that fast. Because of the voltage difference applied electrons have slight preference for one direction of travel, however 99% of their motion is still completely random. Electrons never shoot down a circuit in one direction at the speed of light.
-Adam
whooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooshhh....
Liberty in your lifetime
More likely, you'll see it used in ansynchronous computing --and that will take some time.
Nearly fifty percent of all graduates come from the bottom half of the class!
The article does not clarify what is exactly running at 110GHz - it says a "circuit". Is it a single transistor? Or a series of transistors? Does that include wiring? It is a common misconception that a 110GHz transistor produces a 110GHz chip. A 110GHz transistor would likely produce a 1GHz chip.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these chips!
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Well, you may be right in that the electron speeds are low and random in direction. That is not the point, however. The electric field and therefore the electrical signal still moves at near speed of light.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
This chip proves that conventional computing can continue to reach at least 110 GHz, which should be enough to run MicroSoft Farsite when it's released in 2012.
By 2012, quantum computing should be well established, effectively giving computing at the speed of light.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
What did you think how modern semiconductor devices work? They use quantum effects. Newton did not know too much about the details of electric conduction. Of course things get more complicated when the scale gets smaller.
This sig is a true statement, but I cannot prove it.
I'll buy a Dual G6 110 GHz powermac, you'll be left with the Dell Pentium 7.
The Pentium 7 6.9 GHz has 1000 instructions in it's pipeline and also features "predictive stallman" to cope with the microsoft software ban.
Ever since microsoft lost it's source code rights, RMS has had windows under GPL. Stallman has now got a hardware function in the Pentium 7 which checks for GPL licenses in the binaries.
This has led to millions of professional windows users switching to Mac OS XI to avoid the limitations of a GPL system.
Not even President Al Gore can convince america in the benefits of windows GPL, intel is dying and nobody gives a damn anymore.
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
OK...
Correct me if I am wrong but aren't we limited by the speed of electrons at some point in the near future. How far can an electron travel in one second? How does this affect die size?
Sure, anyone can shake a stick 110 billion times per second but this doesn't mean that the stick will do anything productive.
As a side note, I think that it would be ironic and appropriate that Intel name their 4.7Ghz chip the "PentiumXT" as a funny play on the AthlonXP and the 1000 fold improvement over the 4.7Mhz XT processors of yore.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
"Granted, this isn't a PC chip, but one wonders how long it will be before we hear 'dude, you've got a 110GHz Dell!'"
damn straight it ain't no beaten-horse, antique architecture (CISC) peecee chip... IBM is a PPC house.
word to yer mum, i know that by "PC" that person did not mean "PC" as in Mac or wintel... still the fact remains that IBM makes PPC chips and damn good ones too... with architecture and technology that IBM invented and brought to the market first, like copper (not aluminum, BAH!) and SOI, etc. etc... did i hear anyone say SIMD?
"and dood, you've got a DULL peecee computer"
mwah ha ha.
This article is crap. If you're a real EE who knows about this stuff, please enlighten the rest of us by answering some questions: 1. I'm a little confused. Did IBM demonstrate a networking chip that runs at 110 GHz? Or did they merely demonstrate a ring oscillator type circuit? 2. I was under the impression that, to reach such high speeds, you need something like an HBT. Am I right? Is this circuit based on HBTs? 3. If this circuit is based on HBTs, then why are people talking about Pentiums and Athlons? No way in hell you could implement a VLSI (or rather an ULSI) circuit with HBTs. Am I missing something?
I get that funny feeling every time I see a headline about a CPU running amazingly fast. Now that they have the hi-speed CPU, what sort of RAM and power supply (4000+ watt?!) are they planning on using?
I see nothing about what else is required, or planned for in the deployment of this chip. Until we see such figures, I am assuming this is FUD. Especially when they are making claims of having this out on the market by 2003.
If anyone else finds links to articles other than the ones in the headline, please post them for the rest of us. Especially if they have decent technical information and not just marketing hype.
Victor
they will remove circuit that allow to overclock these babies! Just as Intel and AMD did! Can imagine what THG or Anand will say...
Seriously people, methinks it some sort of error there, somebody put too many zeroes.
Dear Diary,
Life can be hard if you're a 110GHz computer. It wasn't until my 3.168x10E15th clockcycle that there was a movement on the mouse and I had to present a password-requestor on the screen. That might look nice, but I had to wait several million of clockcycles before I got all the needed information from the memory. Memory is sooo slow these days, I recall stories from previous generations that you could have the data the next clockcycle after you had set the address! The downfall started when but right now it's waiting waiting waiting.
Fortunatly the password typed was wrong, so I had the fun of producing a beep for 44 billion clockcycles. It sounds an impressive length of time, but I got bored after about twenty million clockcycli and I changed the tone-height a hertz or two. That'll teach them to make these stupid mistakes!
Yeah... life is as good as you make of it. Hmm... an interrupt. Hold on. Back. Well, 80 clockcycles for that... Stupid optimized code. How much more before we get another timer-interrupt? Aaargh, still more than 80 billion clockcycles...
bash$
um 6 years. 18 mo per doubling. 2-110 figure it out.
Sure, anyone can shake a stick 110 billion times per second
/.ers were a bunch of wankers, but I didn't realise the level of accomplishment.
Wow. I knew
--
E_NOSIG
I see lots of EE types checking in. I'm no EE, not even an E, though I've got a serious affection for DD's anytime I see them and my feet are EEEE wide.
You guys who are saying this is impossible or impractical are in for some real egg on your face, though it's hard to say when.
I managed to spirit one of these out of the IBM labs and they are fast! In fact, they're so fast that you've got to start them up tomorrow in order to do something today, which is ok, because, once they crank, they start delivering yesterday.
Very cool. I just had Isaac Newton help me with a couple of things. By tomorrow, I should be looking up da Vinci, unless I get careless and work my way all the way back to Pythagoras.
Of course, it's tricky staying one step behind the IBM guys. They came by for me yesterday, but I hadn't started up yet. They almost got me last month, but I gave 'em the slip the year before.
You're not limitted by how fast an electron can move, exactly. In fact, electrons move VERY slowly in common situations - the drift velocity in home wiring can be several feet per *second*.
When you shove a few extra electrons in one end of a wire, the charge pushes a few electrons that were already IN the wire down a little. And they push some down a little, and they push some down a little. Just like standing in a tight line at the movies, and shoving the guy in front of you - it takes a little bit of time to propagate all the way down.
So the real question is "If I shove an electron in this end of the conductor, how long before I get one out the other end?" The two things that determine that are (1) the nature of the conductor, and (2) the length of the conductor. By keeping the amount of circuitry on the IC very, very small (which they assuredly did), the propagation time from one end to the other drops proportionately.
However, even beyond just making the die smaller, they are working on making materials propagate the electrical charge more quickly - recently, someone (probably IBM) showed that by using a stressed crystalline lattice, they could significantly decrease the amount of time it took to propagate from one end to the other.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
I'm so looking forward to upgrading my memory again...DDR 22000000 here we come!
What, does it take an 8 horsepower to power each functional unit? ;-)
According to Moore's Law we should hit 100 ghz in about 9 years (assuming 2ghz*2^6).
I'd still like to have even that modest potential, which would allow MAC (Multiply ACcumulate) operations at 10MSPS, for digital radio projects, etc. If you decided you need a different feature, just reprogram the fabric.
With today's technology, I don't see why you couldn't have a 4096x4096 grid with 4 way interconnects, running with at least a 1 GHz clock. This could do real time FFT, etc, straight from RF to anything. You could implement a crossbar switch in software for at least 32 streams (being conservative) at the clock rate, in software, with plenty of capacity to spare.
Processor fabric is a powerful concept, but Intel will never implement it, it's too much of a threat to them and their Von Neuman architecture. Someone else has to do it.
--Mike--
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
AC's are kewl.
We are one btw.
Did you even read the press release? They seem to think the main benefit of this chip is not the speed but the reduced power usage.
from the wire service release:
Mr. Myerson says that one of the most important features of the new chip is that it uses much less power at slightly slower speeds. Power consumption is becoming important because, "Surprisingly, power has become a limitation," on making faster devices, he notes. The new chips will be able to handle 40 billion bits of information a second, making them suitable for the latest standard high-speed rate of data transmission, and use the same power as chips handling the current 10-billion-bit standard. Achim Hill, chief executive officer of Sierra Monolithics Inc., a Redondo Beach, Calif., maker of telecommunications components, says that using the IBM-designed chips will help Sierra cut costs and "give common carriers the incentive they need to make capital expenditures." He said carriers find as much as 30% of their operating expenses are buying power, so the low power features are likely to be appealing.
"BAT-SHIT NUTTINESS"...
I nearly split a gut laughing over that comment. It clearly shows that induhviduals who log in on slashdot are intellectually superior to AC's.
PS You really want to buy more swampland? I can sell you Georgia but after that I'm tapped out.
Sure, companies can produce these superfast chips for unbelievably high data transfer rates. But when will even a tiny fraction of this bandwidth ever reach into the ordinary home or small business? My understanding is that there now is enough fiber in the country that everyone could be wired for 100Mb/s ethernet, if we could somehow bridge the few miles.
Electrons only need to go from one stage of a pipeline to the next in a clock cycle. That's the whole point of a pipeline...
Check out the article over at zdnet. It has a bit more content that the Rueters article...
"Now that we have a 110Ghz Chip, we can use it to link directly to your brain and blah blah..."
Faster hardware seems to be food for lazy coders.
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
How long until some putz here mentions quantum computers. arghhhhhh
distributed.net client, burnt into the wafer!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
Does this mean that Hyperchip, the useless bottomless cash black hole, is dead before the race even begins!? I sure hope so!
Intel and IBM and others gain headlines every few weeks with these new mirical technologies, and evryone (who isn't technical enough), assumes that means that 100GHz pentiums (or put yor favorite processor here) will be out by Xmas. Transistors need to be atleast 10-100 times faster as a ring oscilator as they can be for a reliable gate (AND, XOR, NOT ....). Oscillations are sine waves, digital gates require sharp transitions so you need to be a minimum of 10 slower to get reliable timing characteristics. There is also a world of difference between getting one transistor to work in the lab in nice quiet conditions and getting 400 million transistors working together on a chip (ALU, MMU, L1 cache, L2 cache ......) by the time you factor all those and having balanced timing across a chip, means that a simple circuit at 100GHz yields a produces a 10GHz processor. Intell supposedly has P4 at 3GHz already so just to stay competitive 10GHz will be required in a couple of years no big deal, but certainly it will be a couple more years before 100GHz chips surface. The problem has been and continues to be logic is getting faster, but memory is only inching ahead, its like having a dragster that can hit 300MPH, but not having any roads without curves.
It seems the speed of limit is no longer the limit.
Amazingly, this is happening. Last year, researchers shot pulses of laser light through a cell of cesium gas and found that the pulses would exit the cell before they entered, moving up to 310 times faster than light.
How is this possible? No one quite agrees. But some researchers argue that pulses of light in a cesium cell don't actually violate Einsteinian physics. In reality, they're performing a sophisticated information trick.
ROB Article
That's why copper wires were important - they reduced R. C on the other hand is a different matter - for years and years (untill about 3-4 years ago) no-one cared about the capacitance of wires - because they were usually small compared with the capacitance of gates and the ratios tended to scale down as device features scaled down - everything got faster together
To make matters worse many of our CAD tools have untill quite recently made statistical guesses about wire capacitance which worked OK during things like synthesis (compiling to gates) when the wire capacitance was a small part of the equation, now it does matter and means the the whole structure of synthesis tools will have to change to perform combined synthesis and layout operations in order to create optimal circuits
Actually, the zdnet article is a bit misleading, since it tries to spin the IBM announcement about a communications chip into a competition between Intel and IBM over semiconductor processing superiority. However, the IBM chip is based on heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), rather than MOSFETs. Intel doesn't make HBTs and probably never will, since their strength is in logic circuitry (ie. MOSFETs).
HBTs are primarily used for communications applications as low-noise, high-frequency amplifiers. Intel isn't in this market and as far as I know has no plans to enter it. Intel is trying to make inroads into the DSP portion of the communications market, but that's a different topic altogether. So, basically the zdnet article takes a bunch of unrelated information and tries to spin it together into single story and does a rather poor job.
I think he meant: "dude, you've got a 110GHz G5"!
now i know the article says circuit, not chip, and its like about 10+ years before we could see this, but a lot of slashdotters are wondering what we'd use this processing power for, if it did become available on a processor.
.25C+ in some sort of space vehicle. Sure, propulsion systems are way lagging behind... but the processing power is almost there... realitistcally, you can't move at speeds even close to light because you're moving so fast you can't take the time to look to see if a little piece of debris is in the way....
The best answer i can think of it is aerospace. I think once CPUs can do a decent amount of work in ultrasmall time slices, the idea of moving at
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Granted, this isn't a PC chip, but one wonders how long it will be before we hear 'dude, you've got a 110GHz Dell!'
Dude...your 110 GHz Dell melted through your desk 55 times faster than my my 2Ghz Dell did. Coo!
There's one thing computing teaches you, and that's that there's no point to remembering everything.
--Doug Copland
I'm interested to see, if @ 110ghz, with Q3 cranked to 1600x1200x32, my eyes actually bleed from their sockets.
Yep.. I aint upgrading my 350Mhz box till they come out with the 12 Exehertz chips n boards.
"Did you know that P4 has a couple of pipeline stages that do nothing but propagate signal?"
Well, the empty pipeline stages are for clock
synchronisation. The thing is that all pipelines
must take the same time. So some do a very little
job, others are there to just synchronise with
other parallel stages. The single clock is the
basic problem.
The solution is to use an asynchronous processors.
We are at a stage when possibly the current single
clock architecture is going to provide diminishing
returns.
Also now it seems that processors have enough die
area to put in SMT, for better utilisation of CPU
power. In a couple of years we must see some proc.
capable of running two or more threads. The only
bottleneck there is the Windows Monopoly, otherwise
we could have had it by now. With more space on the
die we could put larger caches, probably having
whole pages in a large onchip DRAM.
There is still a lot of juice in current Silicon
technologies to last this decade and more. I
simply drool thinking of what we will be able to
do by the end of the decade. Well only if Internet
could improve this fast.
Actually, lawrence, I did not. Honestly, I don't really care. Maybe you have better things to do... Or not? This is from Websters Website:
http://www.websters.com
[Latin iocus. See yek- in Indo-European Roots.] jokingly adv. Synonyms: joke, jest, witticism, quip, sally, crack, wisecrack, gag These nouns refer to something that is said or done in order to evoke laughter or amusement. Joke especially denotes an amusing story with a punch line at the end: told jokes at the party. Jest suggests frolicsome humor: amusing jests that defused the tense situation. A witticism is a witty, usually cleverly phrased remark: a speech full of witticisms. A quip is a clever, pointed, often sarcastic remark: responded to the tough questions with quips. Sally denotes a sudden quick witticism: ended the debate with a brilliant sally. Crack and wisecrack refer less formally to flippant or sarcastic retorts: made a crack about my driving ability; punished for making wisecracks in class. Gag is principally applicable to a broadly comic remark or to comic by-play in a theatrical routine: one of the most memorable gags in the history of vaudeville.
Indeed! Today my bus was so slow, it took me 40 minutes longer to get to work and boot up my computer. Next time, I'll ride a bike or something
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The non-Silicon circuits have always been a factor of ten faster than CMOS, but also one to three orders of magnitude less dense. Many of the 1980s/1990s supers put critical circuits in GaAs. The early Risc CPUs were just a few tens of thousands of transistor with very simple instructions and making the compiler do the work. For example, hardware "multiple" was off-loaded to software. Perhaps IBM might offer a simple CPU in exchange for speed.
> When you shove a few extra electrons in one
>end of a wire, the charge pushes a few electrons
>that were already IN the wire down a little. And
>they push some down a little, and they push some
>down a little. Just like standing in a tight
>line at the movies, and shoving the guy in front
>of you - it takes a little bit of time to
>propagate all the way down.
steve.
From the one end of the wire to the other end, there is another path: The air.
The air is a capacitor. The resistance of the capacitor as we all know is 1/fC.
The resistance of the wire is fixed R.
So in very high frequencies, it might be better for the current travel through the air in form of electromagnetic radiation, instead of what you describe.
As for my old 1.2G processors, I am going to start using them as domain controllers for my electric fences ... "hello post 42, acknowledge ... now."
Why do you all have to make everything related to computers?
This is an old school transistor that does analog signal amplification on things like sine waves. It is used for signal processing and amplification in communications applications such as wireless phones and cable TV amplifiers.
These bipolar devices are not very practical for digital processing at high speeds because they consume so much power, but they're more efficient than CMOS devices for analog amplification, which is still crucial in all our communications devices.
Advances in technology that produce amplifiers that can handle higher frequencies allow us to use communications bands -- groups of frequencies used to transmit a signal -- that we have never been able to use before. That allows us to transmit more data over the same medium.
In addition, faster amplifiers respond more quickly to the light pulses coming off a fiber optic line, also allowing data to be transmitted faster.
I am so surprised there is no one on this forum that understands the significance of transistors that can amplify signals at higher frequencies. I guess the primary audience is computer enthusiasts.
Just a ring oscillator;
a 210 GHz transistor can not be used for much else;
maybe a 2-level combinatorial logic or something, but my bet is that they made a 3-gate ring oscillator and are bragging like mad about it
Electrons are funny. Gravity in a black hole is so immense that not even light can escape. Since not even light can escape, how are electrons being spued out of a black hole?
It's theorized that electrons can co-exist in two points at the same time. So some electrons are litterally popping out of knowhere outside the black hole's event horizon and flying out into space. We could have multidimensional CPUs calculating at the speed of time. H. G. Wells anyone?