Didn't they discover a superconductor recently that 'super-conducts' at a quite achievable temperature ?
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 16:04, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]>wrote: > Unlikely. The single core speed problem is due to fundamental limits of > physics. The only way we will make single cores significantly faster is > through major silicon process improvements (perhaps using new materials), > major cooling improvements (very unlikely), or by making programming models > more tolerant of physical errors (which would be very interesting). > > - josh > > On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Mikael Grev wrote: > > > > >> 1. a single CPU core is not going to become any faster. That's right; > >> a single thread is never going to run any faster in the future. We've > >> reached the end of the line as far as clock speed and on-chip > >> parallelization is concerned. > > > > Bill Gates said that 640k was more than anyone would ever need. > > > > Something tells me that some innovative person will find a way to > > circumvent the problem. > > > > :) > > > > Cheers, > > Mikael > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
