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NTT Verifies Diamond Semiconductor Operation At 81 GHz

Posted by timothy on from the ooh-shiny dept.

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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  1. Gamer Heaven...er Hell by Whitecloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should be able to run Doom III.... heh.

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    1. Re:Gamer Heaven...er Hell by Gherald · · Score: 5, Funny

      Perhaps it will. But the article doesn't have any any Quake III Arena FPS benchmarks!

      What's up with that!?

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    2. Re:Gamer Heaven...er Hell by HillBilly · · Score: 3, Funny

      Probably still need to over clock, with water-cooling, turning the details down a bit could help to.

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  2. Geeks want to know... by serps · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, will these new chips be free as in speech, or free as in De Beers?

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  3. M$ Released new bloatware to slow it down... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

  4. Diamonds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "CPUs are Forever" is not conducive to Moore's Law.

  5. Finally! by maxmg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

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    1. Re:Finally! by ewhac · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or, conversely, now you can reduce a man to tears with the gift of a diamond.

      Schwab

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  6. Memory? by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  7. Hey honey! by Botchka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I borrow your wedding ring for the lan party??

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  8. So if CPUs are diamond... by Ro'que · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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."

  9. You, sir, need a drink! by appleLaserWriter · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Hmm. by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Serious cooling is necessary, of course, but I hear the diamond doesn't vary nearly as much with temperature as Si does, so heat is less of a problem.

    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. ;)

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