From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 11:44:16 MDT
Dani Eder wrote:
>
> You need to keep clear the distinction between the
> transistor switching speed, which may be 100 GHz,
> and the chip clock speed, which is the transistor
> speed divided by the number of transistors in series
> involved in one clock cycle. The very shortest
> cycle would be a flip-flop type oscillator, which
> would take 2 transistors. More typically it would
> take 5-10 transistors in series to complete a logic
> operation.
What's the actual switching speed of a modern-day transistor in a 1GHz
Pentium?
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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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