IBM Creates World's Fastest Semiconductor Circuits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 25, 2002 @08:48AM from the it's-only-a-model-shhh dept.

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!'"

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100 Gigabit Bad-Boy by rirugrat · 2002-02-25 08:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

IBM expects the new technology to be pumping out 100 gigabit/sec network switching chips by the end of the year
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
It isn't a 110GHz P4... by bdaehlie · 2002-02-25 14:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think he meant: "dude, you've got a 110GHz G5"!