Author Topic: 81 GHz processor !!!!!! (Read 474 times)

tapakeg · « **on:** November 12, 2004, 07:57:42 PM »

Holy crap that's a fast prcessor !!!!!!!

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2004, 08:12:32 PM »

Yeah but did you see the last paragraph?

Researchers at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) have set their sights on a transistor that runs at 200GHz while dissipating 30W/mm², and they believe impurities are the only thing holding them back. Apollo's process would remove even that barrier, making the purest diamond physically possible.

Dayum.

Mini D · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2004, 08:26:29 PM »

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The most disappointing fact I gleaned from this whole idea is how ignorant North American semiconductor makers have been of these discoveries. It is not an accident. De Beers, which holds a monopolistic stranglehold on global diamond mining, has fought tooth and nail to keep Gemesis and Apollo out of the mainstream.

He's very wrong. Semiconductor manufacturers is a direction DeBeers would rather see these companies go... and stay out of jewelry. "Industrial diamond" is not a threat to them.

And I know of one semiconductor company that's been working with diamond for some time now. I don't know of any semiconductor companies that would be all too vocal with their findings... except maybe IBM who has a habbit of making ground breaking announcements long before they've figured out just how to make it work.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2004, 08:31:23 PM »

WTF do you know about this MiniD, dont think that being Intel's wildlife photographer makes you an expert on chip design..

So how soon do you think we can see these fast diamond chips availble as mainstream products?

wklink · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2004, 04:21:42 AM »

Cool, maybe I can soon run LOMAC with all the features maxed out.

Mini D · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:00:51 AM »

I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing it in the market place. It's a completely new technology and the manufacturing of the transistors is far from reliable right now. If I had to look at concept to delivery dates for most new processes, I'd say 5-7 years. This should be longer because the change is much more significant.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2004, 01:36:15 PM »

Can you imagine running an old DOS game like pirates with a processor that fast?

hawker238 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2004, 01:53:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Can you imagine running an old DOS game like pirates with a processor that fast?

Yeah.... not really seeing your point. You'd just have more of the system idle.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2004, 02:08:39 PM »

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Originally posted by hawker238
Yeah.... not really seeing your point. You'd just have more of the system idle.

I was speaking of running it more in MSDOS than in windows. BUT, it was in fact A JOKE!

Angus · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2004, 02:24:35 PM »

so maybe your pc will boot up properly in less than a minute with that kind of power.

hehe, my old one from 1992 boots up in roughly the same time as my 2002 model.

486 33 vs pentium 2000!