Author: Michael a
Date: 09:53:25 06/08/02
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On June 06, 2002 at 17:38:07, Russell Reagan wrote: >What I would like to know is if there is a theoretical limit to the speed >processors can reach. > >I'm not sure if this is related or not, but I'll throw this out there also. I >recall long ago hearing or reading about how the electrons passing through a >wire (or whatever medium) bang into each other and thus cause the travel time >from one end of a wire to the other end to take longer, and also causing heat to >be generated from the collisions. It went on to talk about how the smaller the >wire gets, the fewer the number of collisions, the faster the travel time, and >less heat is generated. So is the theoretical limit to processor speed when we >are able to create a wire (or whatever medium) that has the width of a single >electron, and can thus move freely with no collisions? Sorry if this has nothing >to do with my original question. > >I'm not talking so much about other approaches to computing such as quantum >computing. I'm speaking in terms of our current architecture. > >Russell I had posted a link to a book on the CIA and NSA at amazon.com about 3 weeks ago citing a 17 septillion (can't remember the number) op/sec but no one responded to it. My original question was what would the SSDF rating list look like with that type of number.
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