While it's nice to see someone point out the meaning behind this piece of marketing guff, it may not be all that inaccurate in this instance.
Defining "quantum" as the smallest increment does not define the size. It could still be very large. A quantum is a discrete change.
Hence, if the processor speed goes from, e.g. 800MHz to 1Ghz without passing through any other speeds, then that would be a quantum leap. If "nature" disallows for any changes of less than 200MHz, then it would be the smallest allowable change, and still pretty impressive.
By the way, I don't remember this from my introduction to modern physics, this sort of stuff hardly qualifies as introductory...
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While it's nice to see someone point out the meaning behind this piece of marketing guff, it may not be all that inaccurate in this instance.
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Defining "quantum" as the smallest increment does not define the size. It could still be very large. A quantum is a discrete change.
Hence, if the processor speed goes from, e.g. 800MHz to 1Ghz without passing through any other speeds, then that would be a quantum leap. If "nature" disallows for any changes of less than 200MHz, then it would be the smallest allowable change, and still pretty impressive.
By the way, I don't remember this from my introduction to modern physics, this sort of stuff hardly qualifies as introductory