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From: geoff on 10 Mar 2010 06:19 > Are we stuck around 3ghz? Yep, beyond that generates too much heat. In the middle 90s, Intel talked about bio-chips, etc. by Y2K. That never happened. Intel kept upping the CPU speed until they ran into a heat problem. Fortunately, they had a skunkworks in Israel that came up with the multi-core idea. What Intel does beyond that to improve speed, I don't know but it seems the aliens from Roswell are no longer around to advise them. --g
From: Marten Kemp on 10 Mar 2010 09:08 geoff wrote: >> Are we stuck around 3ghz? > > Yep, beyond that generates too much heat. In the middle 90s, Intel talked > about bio-chips, etc. by Y2K. That never happened. Intel kept upping the > CPU speed until they ran into a heat problem. > > Fortunately, they had a skunkworks in Israel that came up with the > multi-core idea. > > What Intel does beyond that to improve speed, I don't know but it seems the > aliens from Roswell are no longer around to advise them. The aliens from Roswell were undocumented and got sent back home <grin>. One cooling technology that doesn't seem to have gone anywhere is the Peltier-effect 'refrigerator.' Anybody know why? -- -- Marten Kemp (Fix ISP to reply) You can't help being ignorant 'cause there's always something you don't know; what you can't be is stupid.
From: Conor on 10 Mar 2010 11:18 On 09/03/2010 22:48, LSMFT wrote: > Are we stuck around 3ghz? I haven't seen much speed improvement in years > other than more cores and 64 bit. Some 4ghz around,seems like we should > be at 7 or 10 ghz by now. Speed in Mhz has been fairly irrelevent for about a decade now since AMD came on the scene in the late 1990's. Modern CPUs carry out more functions per clock cycle than previous ones. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Flasherly on 10 Mar 2010 18:46 On Mar 10, 4:43 am, John Doe <j...(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote: > > > You got that from a Borg Cube repair manual! > > He scares the hell out of Borgs... Thanks -- might be a remission after extensible readings, catching up overall on present trends the written scifi genre -- only having picked up Ovid's Metamorphosis only last week;-- Really. . .seems forever, now in noting popular references to The Borg, inasmuch a sense I eclipsed by attributes inferred to clever quips concerning Jorges Borges (a formal surrealist), having just within the past few months gotten around to viewing a corrected association to the StarTrek production, probably, among the best in that lot. Ah, well -- such is modernity on the exponential treadmill [<sighs>. . . back to Ovid and flavors of 8-A.D. Romanism].
From: SteveH on 10 Mar 2010 20:49
Flasherly wrote: > On Mar 10, 4:43 am, John Doe <j...(a)usenetlove.invalid> wrote: >> >>> You got that from a Borg Cube repair manual! >> >> He scares the hell out of Borgs... > > Thanks -- might be a remission after extensible readings, catching up > overall on present trends the written scifi genre -- only having > picked up Ovid's Metamorphosis only last week;-- Really. . .seems > forever, now in noting popular references to The Borg, inasmuch a > sense I eclipsed by attributes inferred to clever quips concerning > Jorges Borges (a formal surrealist), having just within the past few > months gotten around to viewing a corrected association to the > StarTrek production, probably, among the best in that lot. Ah, well > -- such is modernity on the exponential treadmill [<sighs>. . . back > to Ovid and flavors of 8-A.D. Romanism]. Taking the red pills this week then? -- SteveH |