http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 17:17, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
