IBM create 500 GHZ chip - I shit you not

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At room temperature, the not-specified prototype chips topped out at about 350 GHz. Using liquid helium, the researchers went to extreme lengths to cool the circuits to 451 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (4.5 Kelvin or -268.5 degrees Celsius) and bump the clock speed to more than 500 GHz - which translates into 500 billion cycles per second. The cooling process reached near absolute zero temperature, which is defined as 0 Kelvin, -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit or -273.15 degrees Celsius.

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Full article here http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/06/20/ibm_500ghz_chip/
 
I can imagine IBM employees playing soltaire on it, graphics maxed out with 16xAA on. That would be the shit.
 
Only that would run Crysis on motherboard graphics.
 
Harryz said:
I can imagine IBM employees playing soltaire on it, graphics maxed out with 16xAA on. That would be the shit.
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:LOL:
 
Thats pretty fast!

I wonder what chip they used.
They are probably very basic in design. The more complex it is the higher chance parts of the chip will limit how high they can crank it up.
 
These are all special purpose chips, not general purpose chips like your CPU, so don't expect to see 100Ghz AMD FX-9999999s on the market anytime soon. Special purpose chips generally reach much higher speeds than GPUs, even cellphones have 2.4Ghz signal processing chips.
 
I'm not impressed, I want a 10 THz processor:D .

For those that don't know 10 THz = 10000 GHz
 
Pfft that's nothing. I've heard that optical processors at the moment can do 8Thz (8000GHz). Obviously they're still prototypes and you need a special optical motherboard to use one. But it's damn fast.

On traditional chips 500GHz is good. Just a bit :p
 
Ren.182 said:
Pfft that's nothing. I've heard that optical processors at the moment can do 8Thz (8000GHz). Obviously they're still prototypes and you need a special optical motherboard to use one. But it's damn fast.

On traditional chips 500GHz is good. Just a bit :p
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yea but i still want one
 
That's pretty awesome. Maybe games will require something like that in the year 2500, except games won't really be able to progress beyond a point that is probably close in the future.
 
If we reach a theoretical graphic enhancement limit soon, I will be a happy gamer. Because developers will then realize that the only way to make money then, would be to work on innovative... you guessed it, GAMEPLAY.
 
Infern0 said:
If we reach a theoretical graphic enhancement limit soon, I will be a happy gamer. Because developers will then realize that the only way to make money then, would be to work on innovative... you guessed it, GAMEPLAY.
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Liez and slander!

We need more cutting-edge graphics that require CPUs like these! I WANT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE A SHIT IN CS_MILITIA IN CS:S AND SEE HOW IT REALISTICALLY DROPS AND SLIDES DOWN THE BOWL DAMN YOU
 
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500 Jiggahertz!

Half a terahertz? Meh. I'd have expected us to be a lot faster at this stage.
 
It's not that they can't develop uber innovation to put on the market, its just its impractical given the limitations of the tempratures the materials in computers can withstand and the economical cost ladder it would be connected to, I mean even if they came up with a viable way of commercially running these things.. why release a 500 ghz now? when you can milk the inbetween values first, bureaucracy!.

That and they spoon feed us to maximise profitz! :O so imo it's quite suprising that we hav'nt had any massive leaps already with the amount of behind the scenes research and development these people must do.
 
Not suprising really, the cooler a chip is the easier it is to keep cool during load.

Impressive nonetheless.
 
kirovman said:
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500 Jiggahertz!

Half a terahertz? Meh. I'd have expected us to be a lot faster at this stage.
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:D LOL, thats funny,
 
At room temprature it runs at 350Ghz....then it burns out 0.0000001 seconds later. You need a massive cooling system for that, and a 0 degrees Kelivin cooling system is not practical even for special applications.
 
wheres my superconductive cpus at say yoo dig it
 
WTF would you NEED one of these for?

Run every single supermarket scanner in the world?
 
Meh, the future lies in quantum computers :D

I figure optical computers should be widespread in 10-15 years and the first set of fully functional quantum computers should be out within 30 years. :sniper:
 
sinkoman said:
WTF would you NEED one of these for?

Run every single supermarket scanner in the world?
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We could render entire feature length computer animation movies in just a matter of hours.
 
Hey, we could break every single damned cypher in existance with that.
 
SixThree said:
WE COULD CALCULATE PI!!!
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LOL.

If a computer actually managed to calculate pi, entrophy will reverse itself and M * C^2 joules of energy will annihiliate the entire solar system.
 
Well then if we all suddenly asplode we'll know that IBM has been a busy little bee.
 
We must commense an attack against uh... Apple Computers for somehow they are the reason for our future annihilation!
 
15357 said:
We must commense an attack against uh... Apple Computers for somehow they are the reason for our future annihilation!
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I agree! We must use our combined military might to crush them somehow for something they did in the past/near future! They will now pay for their crimes, whatever they were/are going to be!
 
SixThree said:
I agree! We must use our combined military might to crush them somehow for something they did in the past/near future! They will now pay for their crimes, whatever they were/are going to be!
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I'll get the gasoline! You get the bombs! They'll never commit the crimes or even plan to commit the crimes against humanity!
 
15357 said:
I'll get the gasoline! You get the bombs! They'll never commit the crimes or even plan to commit the crimes against humanity!
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WE'LL TELL THE WORLD THEY ARE HOARDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!

It's FOOLPROOF!
 
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