From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 23:48:51 MDT
Phil Osborn wrote:
> Here's a link:
> <http://news.com.com/2100-1001-824657.html>
>
> Just so you won't think I was making that up. I think
> this was the source of the stories about 2,000
> Gigahertz processors in five years that I mentioned
> appearing in the local papers recently.
A 2GHz "CPU" is one that should more-or-less be capable of executing 2
billion sequential operations per second, not a CPU whose transistors
switch at 2GHz. That a transistor needs to switch at speeds approaching
1THz in the near future is not unexpected news. I think the current
research frontier is in the range of 0.5 picosecond transistors, i.e.,
2THz already.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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