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Subject: Re: Pentium 4 - Wrong Direction, + How Close To Physical Limit?

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 13:50:16 06/30/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 16:33:00, Graham Laight wrote:

>My opinion is that the continuing advancement of speed is delaying the day when
>computer manufacturers have to start seriously thinking about how to make
>machines with huge numbers of processors cheaply and effectively.
>
>I remember a couple of years ago Robert Hyatt saying that 1 GHz would be the
>limit of speed, because above this signals emit too many radio waves. I am
>disappointed that he has been proven wrong. Could any electronic engineers out
>there hazard a guess as to where the limit really will be reached, please?
>

Had this been a problem there is a simple solution:
better casing think about it.....



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