PC General Discussion Thread

[E6600]

Thanks

The list is pretty much dominated by IBM, Intel, AMD and Sun
If I only could get a hold of one of them

[:D:]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Chilly chip shatters speed record

Holy shit! 500GHz OCed with liquid helium and 350 at room temp!

The team believes it is possible to make chips run at 1,000 Ghz, or one Terahertz, at room temperature.

[Power666]

Originally Posted by :D:

BBC NEWS | Technology | Chilly chip shatters speed record

Holy shit! 500GHz OCed with liquid helium and 350 at room temp!

I remember reading that about a year ago.

There have been individual circuits that have been tested at ~2,500 Ghz.

[:D:]

It says they broke the world record. Certainly you mean 2,500MHz, not THz. That's 2.5 petahertz. Link to an article?

[Power666]

Actually it should have been 2,500 Ghz for 2.5 Thz.

I don't have a link handy but AMD, Intel and IBM have all demonstrated simple circuits at that high frequently. They were leap frogging each other in quick succession to gain bragging rights.

[E6600]

OMG! clock rates in Thz!

So other than demonstrations and bragging rights, will it ever happen?

I still believe parallelism is the answer, if only we can get software to be truly parallel.

[Darth Alec]

It might happen, but it will take a few years.

And Thz is sick. Maybe one of those could run Crysis.

[Power666]

Rambus, the designer of the memory technology in the N64, PS2, PS3 and early Pentium 4 systems plans on demonstrating a system with 1 TByte/sec of memory bandwidth. That is a very impressive figure. The fastest DDR2 desktop systems officially top out at 17 GB/sec, DD3 hits 25.6 GB/sec officially and highend graphics cards are around 130 GB/sec. The secret for this massive speed increase? Sending information 32 times in every clock cycle. DDR1, DDR2 and DDR3 all have a real clock speed half of their advertised rates. DDR2 800 only runs at 400 Mhz but delivers two bits of information per cycle to reach that 800 Mhz effective speed.

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[E6600]

Originally Posted by Power666

Rambus, the designer of the memory technology in the N64, PS2, PS3 and early Pentium 4 systems plans on demonstrating a system with 1 TByte/sec of memory bandwidth. That is a very impressive figure. The fastest DDR2 desktop systems officially top out at 17 GB/sec, DD3 hits 25.6 GB/sec officially and highend graphics cards are around 130 GB/sec. The secret for this massive speed increase? Sending information 32 times in every clock cycle. DDR1, DDR2 and DDR3 all have a real clock speed half of their advertised rates. DDR2 800 only runs at 400 Mhz but delivers two bits of information per cycle to reach that 800 Mhz effective speed.

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OMG, 1 TByte/sec!! That's an overkill

Originally Posted by E6600

OMG, 1 TByte/sec!! That's an overkill

...then again, there never was a chip that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features!