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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:37:42 06/30/00

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On June 30, 2000 at 16:50:16, Joshua Lee wrote:

>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.....

The problem is the interference within the chip.
-Tom



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