On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 2:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I think clocks arent finished accellerating, I think they dont put the > clock up because it ends up same wattage requirements as parallel anyway, > and also only gives parallel throughput because you get over the electrical > delay via pipelining, and it winds up the same, maybe they just dont like > designing pipelined stuff and would rather go parallel instead and keep the > old designs. > > I believe there is pipelined terrahert asics out there, but its a not well > known thing. >
I don't think so. Clock speed is limited by the speed of light and chip size, which remains around 1 cm. A 1 THz signal has a wavelength of 0.3 mm. But you don't need this kind of speed for AI. Transistors are already 10^8 times faster than neurons. The problem is they use 10^5 times as much power because electrons are 10^5 times lighter than ions crossing an axon membrane. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T607f92b6c1ea30a8-M903b4dd8b6ecd02a81fb1ef2 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
