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Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: tapakeg on November 12, 2004, 07:57:42 PM

Holy crap that's a fast prcessor !!!!!!! (http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Aug/gee20030827021485.htm)

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 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.

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: Mini D 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.

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: GRUNHERZ 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?

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: wklink on November 13, 2004, 04:21:42 AM

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

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: Mini D 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.

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: Gunslinger on November 13, 2004, 01:36:15 PM

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

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: hawker238 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.

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: Gunslinger 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!

Title: 81 GHz processor !!!!!!
Post by: Angus 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!