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saturday morning cartoons sunday morning vaporware (Score:1)
by linzeal on Sunday March 04, @08:43AM EST
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I may be a little crazy but is it just me or are vaporware stories a sunday feature now ?
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10Ghz transister, not CPU! (Score:2)
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on Sunday March 04, @08:51AM EST
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A 10Ghz transister can only make a 10Ghz CPU if each pipeline stage (plus sync overhead) is only a single transister. Which is pretty impossable (a simple flip flop is several transistors, an adder is a big pile of them). As I recall the failed 500Mhz PowerPC that some compony like "eXponential" was making was thought to be extreamly aggressave with only 50 or so transitor delays between pipe stages (and some pipe stages were mostly wire delay to get the signals from one part of the chip to another!). Or maybe I'm confusing that with sombody or others barrel processer style MediaCPU (also out of bisness).
Tiny transistors are wonderflu. Tiny fast transistors are more wonderful. But 10Ghz transistors are no where close to letting you make a 10Ghz CPU. In fact it might be slower then current state of the art (but smaller). Something in this story doesn't add up.
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moore's law (Score:1)
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on Sunday March 04, @08:52AM EST
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?As our researchers venture into uncharted areas beyond previously expected limits of silicon scaling, they find Moore?s Law still intact.?
don't worry they are not going to roll out 10ghz tommorrow night ..
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This is definitely vapour (Score:1)
by whanau on Sunday March 04, @08:52AM EST
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Intel realise that they are no longer the kings of the chip game. With their recent P4 release being a total failure, it is only a matter of time before AMD takes over their current position in the market. Releasing this kind of "news" only shows that they are simply trying to play the pr game, rather than actually focusing on proper R and D like AMD and Transmeta
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Cosmic rays? (Score:1)
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| We normally think of cosmic rays as something that causes bit rot (though in practice it's alpha particles). In a chip that has transistors only 3 atoms thick, would this radiation cause physical damage instead?
If so, we'd need to think about employing a lossy grid of gates, so that a few failures don't kill the processor.
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beneath your current threshold.
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Posted by timothy on Sunday March 04, @08:37AM
Intel Claims 10Ghz Transistor