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NTT Verifies Diamond Semiconductor Operation At 81 GHz
Anonymous Coward writes "This story over at eetimes.com reports of a semiconductor made of diamond that is able to run at 81 GHz." Mmmm, foreshadowing.
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Should be able to run Doom III.... heh.
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...should we start imagining Beowulf clusters of these?
So, will these new chips be free as in speech, or free as in De Beers?
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
in other news, M$ released Windows 2005 beta to NTT. "With instant messaging, help characters, voice response mouse buttons, and background autopatching, the operating system still takes 10 seconds to load Word." says Jerry Chang of M$ product development. "We feel this is the sweet spot. Give us Moore's Law, and we'll give the same speed you got used to in 1993."
"CPUs are Forever" is not conducive to Moore's Law.
I can give my wife a new processor for her birthday! I can see it now:
"But it's an 18 carat Intel, darling!" - "WHACK"
I asked for a refund - and got my monkey back.
...not just a girl's best friend anymore.
So with all the problems we're having these days getting data (memory) near all of these cycles, I can't even imagine what the situation would be with a processor built around these kinds of speeds.
I'm imagining something like Dante's level 7 cache or something.
One man's pink plane is another man's blue plane.
If these get this fast and this hot, I can see now the idea of any form of material around it spontainiously combusting if a coolant system dies. Just think, no dust problems, it just incinerates in the case.
If that was an 81 Ghz Athlon, could you heat an entire city with it?
Maybe now Mozilla will run at a tolerable speed...
Can I borrow your wedding ring for the lan party??
Money not found! A)bort, R)etry, D)eclare Bankruptcy
> Now AMD's PR ratings will be through the roof!
I for one welcome our new Athalon 81000 XP++ (56700mhz) space heaters!
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...does that mean we'll have cubic zarconium CPUs for the cheapos? I can just see my dad buying me a glass CPU while Jimmy down the street gets a diamond one.
"But boy, you can't even tell the difference! Look at it gleam in the light!"
"Dad, that's the case lighting on fire."
If you want to get pedantic, pick any pair (x,y). unless equals(x,y) is true, different(x,y) is true. Now better(x,y) is a special case of different(x,y), but its meaning is context dependant.
Sometimes better(x,y) maps to greater(x,y) or less(x,y). So it is entirely possible that for some value of better(), better(tube, silicon) is true. If, for example, I'm a salesdude at a hifi store and you are a customer with stacks of cash. Then *clearly* better(silicon, tube) is true. However, after I sell you the tube amp and I'm spending my commission check on my own amp, better(tube, silicon) is true as long as I'm trying to optimize for a maximal personal bank account.
If I'm trying to create the best listening device for my music, then... it doesn't matter. All my music is in MP3 format which horribly degrades the original signal. A nicely distorting vintage tube amp and a nice martini are probably the ideal combination to help me forget.
I don't know about that. I'm sure I'd be somewhat wary of having one of these chips in a laptop dissipating 30W/mm a few inches from *my* crotch. ;)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Or they could just suspend a raw chicken above it and see how long it takes to cook from the microwave emissions.
Bring Back the turbo button!
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."