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Absolutely amazing. I want to know how exactly they got it to be that much faster.

Yay, why don't we just make my computer MORE outdated Hopefully other prices drop because of this.

This sounds cool

This site doesn't look very reliable, though... =\

Thats cool, I want one!

I hate when things like this come oput because that means I haev to buy a new computer soon! LOL, Argh, Same with the new Windows version for a comp is coming out next year!

Because things come out you HAVE to upgrade? Sounds a little compulsive to me.

It's true. IBM broke 500 GHz... with cryogenic cooling. Hee hee. However, they still got 350 GHz with standard air cooling. Also, please note, this isn't for a new processor, just a silicon chip. It's a special type of silicon too, but it's not standard, and it has a special name. Ah yes, Silicon-Germanium. They said that's about as far as they can push this material, but 350 GHz (which is what most of us would be able to achieve with this chip) would devastate current processors. IBM trails fairly far behind AMD and Intel. Their biggest source of processor sales come from... who would have guessed... consoles (they're doing the chips for PS3 and Wii). However, most people can't even utilize the power of an FX-62. Once a cpu with SiGe comes out there will be no point to having physics cards... or maybe even dedicated graphics cards (I doubt it though, because it would take a lot of effort to get good image quality since NVidia and ATI have a huge headstart). What is a person going to do with 350 GHz though? Calculate pi? Have the biggest internet balls? Only time will tell!

Fanboys, rejoice!

Heh....Imagine the fps you could get in some games. Imagine the price tag too....
Probably wont come out in our lifetimes anyway. The article doesnt talk about power consumption or other costs involved. How would the other hardware in the system such as the actual die itself be able to keep up with those speeds? And what does "room temperature" mean? If you have to cool it yourself to room temperature then thats also a waste.

Hmmm...If this ever comes out then companys like intel and amd are doomed and nobody would care about processor speed again.




Unless they get a quad video card configuration....then the cpu is the bottleneck. A chip like this could seriously unleash the power of those multi-gpu cards.

Heres a better article.
http://news.com.com/Chip+breaks+speed+reco..._3-6085568.html

The technology won't be readily available for the consumer public for a very long time.

First, the power consumption on that thing would be insane. 350 billion cycles per second, that means 350 billion electrical impulses per second, the amps and voltage involved would be incredible. Not to mention that your wires and chips would fry up very rapidly because resistance would also increase by a lot.

Manufacturing of these chips is also very expensive, for years they haven't used germanium for one reason: price.

You'd also have to develop entire new computer systems around this new technology. I for one, am extremely interested in working with this. I'm currently studying Computer Engineering, and I've always wanted to work for IBM, Intel or any other major computer parts company.
5 maybe 6 years and I'll start working with these.

i'd guess that these arent use for personal uses. It'll be probably used in company super computers first.

MAybe it will be use to control all the things in house:(air,humidity,lock and all). Computer will now be the core of a house

Or maybe you can use it as a thermal heater in the winter for all the heat it will produce. You could hook it up to your microwave and get a 150% performance increase!!!

Now watch as they reveal the test was conducted at -270°C.

Neat stuff anyway.

All the power usage that would be required to obtain maximum processing power is not needed. We don't have any reason to use that much power on our own PCs, so a third of the power would be all that we need.

I'll repeat it again: 500 GHz was achieved with cryogenic freezing, and 350 GHz was achieved with standard air cooling. Besides, it would take a very, very simple computer chip to control all of the electronics in your house (running an operating system itself would be more complex than managing the temperature and stuff).

Note that Cryogenic freezing the wires create superconducting pathways.

Thats what happens to all hardware. But it will damage hardware much faster as it goes from -471 degrees to room temperature. So it better be kept on all the time.

HAHA!! Who would want to calculate pi?

This won't be utillized for a while.. if ever.. way too much power consumption... I'll just wait for the Conroe and AM2's