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Originally Posted by Neutrino
Yes nothing new stories like this are almost daily things on slashdot. However those proccesors are hardly anything more than a few proof of concept generic designs meant to show off working prototypes of some new transistor design or such.
They are nothing in complexity compared to a modern Conroe/San Diego core use use in PCs. Most of those designs never even make it to production phase since they start failing once you apply them to real world architectural designs.
Also as even Intel had to admit MHz can mean little nowadays.
Trust me what we get now its the best of what it can be produced to function reliably. The military does not have anything better, all they have is specific implementations. Such as emt resistant parts, custom software and for massive computing power they just use huge clusters of cpus be it opterosn/xeons or power pc architectures.
That is not to say the some of the design ideeas from those 400 GHZ procs won't make it into a unit many years from now, its just simply not worth getting too worked over.
PS. Sorry to sounds cynical but this is what you get from experience. For the forseeable future the CPU clocks will continue to climb much slower. That is not to say they will not continue to advance at the same rate through architectural advancements, however for now the MHz clock race is effectivelly over. Its las hero was the long pipeline netburst architecture which was just killed by intel. All hail the new core:conroe  |
well obviously the technology cant be used now or it would be. guess i should have clarified. however i bet within the next 4 years processors will be atleast this fast. they actually have liquid cooled processors approaching one terrahert also.