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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

GHz * 10^3 @ 2013?

How do you make computers 1,000 times faster? By making them smaller? Not according to IBM. They say all you have to do is glue a bunch of CPUs together. They further claim they can have a marketable product by 2013.

Yeah, whatevah... This is the same company that took 12 years to get the "blue laser CD" (i.e. - DVD) from the lab to a marketable product, and that was a very minor advancement of an existing technology. I'm not holding my breath for SUPERCRAZYFASTOMGWTFLOL processors by 2013.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:47

1 Comments:

Blogger curmudgeon said...

The problem with fast CPUs is cooling. Liquid nitrogen isn't practical for home use.
Size doesn't matter, or so I have heard.
Then there's the 3 x 10^6 barrier, so we can't win for losing.

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