The overall performance of an automobile (as a product) is largely determined by factors other than it's top speed. When will these apples-oranges analogies cease to be brandished about and modded up for some mysterious reasons. Processors aren't cars or planes, their "speed"/performance is the primary characteristic.
Similarly the comment here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=502904&cid=22893340/ demonstrates ignorance about processor design - it's not that somehow the mainstream processor transistors are dramatically slower than these seemingly magical counterparts in highly specialized research samples. Clock speed is largely a product of architecture (pipeline etc), simply put, these research chips do a lot less "work" in a single cycle than their commercial counterparts. Thus clock speed comparison is largely useless.
But who cares, let's keep modding these silly posts interesting, informative.
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The overall performance of an automobile (as a product) is largely determined by factors other than it's top speed. When will these apples-oranges analogies cease to be brandished about and modded up for some mysterious reasons. Processors aren't cars or planes, their "speed"/performance is the primary characteristic.
Similarly the comment here: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=502904&cid=22893340/ demonstrates ignorance about processor design - it's not that somehow the mainstream processor transistors are dramatically slower than these seemingly magical counterparts in highly specialized research samples. Clock speed is largely a product of architecture (pipeline etc), simply put, these research chips do a lot less "work" in a single cycle than their commercial counterparts. Thus clock speed comparison is largely useless.
But who cares, let's keep modding these silly posts interesting, informative.