Well, to nitpick, when you refer to the maximum number of "operations" in this sense, I think it means a 0-1 transition rather than a multiply. =)
So in the worst case where every "transistor" on your chip changes state, you'd have to divide that by a few more million/billion/whatever
I think the article mentioned something about 10^35 operations on each of 10^16 bits. So maybe it meant the CPU state is defined by 10^16 internal bits (or transistor states) and you could run that at 10^35 Hz.
I realize those numbers might be wrong... I'm just using them off the top of my head. I read it before lunch.
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Well, to nitpick, when you refer to the maximum number of "operations" in this sense, I think it means a 0-1 transition rather than a multiply. =)
So in the worst case where every "transistor" on your chip changes state, you'd have to divide that by a few more million/billion/whatever
I think the article mentioned something about 10^35 operations on each of 10^16 bits. So maybe it meant the CPU state is defined by 10^16 internal bits (or transistor states) and you could run that at 10^35 Hz.
I realize those numbers might be wrong... I'm just using them off the top of my head. I read it before lunch.