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
> >
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