From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 04:11:12 MDT
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Phil Osborn wrote:
> A few months ago, the local papers carried a story to
> the effect that INTEL was announcing 2,000 GigaHz
> processors to be available in about five years. I
> haven't seen anything more on this since.
Currently, we've got 3 THz switching speed, with promise to go to 6 THz
sometimes soon. However, conventional CPU design (even
asynchronous/clockless) doesn't scale. Cellular architectures would come
within one order of magnitude to that, though. ~600 GHz refresh rate
doesn't look too shabby in my book (but owch! this one is going to be hot,
and possibly warrant design excursions into reversible logic, even though
being mostly flatland).
But buckytronics does look especially good here, especially if you can
stay in the ballistic regime most of the time. Plus, them tubes can run
hot, and have no electromigration issues.
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