Israeli Processor Computes At Speed Of Light

[Virtualbody1234]

Originally posted by balamm@23 November 2003 - 20:33
Then you'll be quite happy with your slow electronic processor when the rest of the world jumps to light processing I guess. To each their own I guess.

That's completely beside the point.

[balamm]

The point? What point?
That you aren't willing to understand physics and new techmology based on a new understanding of physics?

Whatever, stamp your feet and make your declarations then. Makes no difference to me or anyone who is interested in advance.

[supersonic]

Originally posted by balamm+23 November 2003 - 20:19--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (balamm @ 23 November 2003 - 20:19)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Virtualbody1234@23 November 2003 - 15:05
Electricity travels at the speed of light so don&#39;t our current CPU compute at the speed of light?

Does it? Theres debate about that. Certainly the operations and switches aren&#39;t done at the speed of light.

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/topic/5367-1.html

Search google using your statement " Electricity travels at the speed of light" and you&#39;ll find a lot of this. [/b][/quote]
Who said the speed of light is the fastest? B)

[4play]

i also read a post on slashdot about some company working on a new cpu that could be added to an existing pc as a pci card which could give it massive amounts of computing power. the probability we will even see any of this technology in the next 10 years are pretty slim i bet.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Originally posted by ZaZu@23 November 2003 - 22:01
The processor performs 8 trillion operations per second, equivalent to a super-computer and 1,000 times faster than standard processors, with 256 lasers performing computations at light speed.

8 Trillion operations? How many do the current CPUs have?? say the P4...and if electricity is as fast as light...wouldnt it still be a LOT faster with the 8trillion operations? Thanx for this topic...very interesting

[mooseman2070]

i think they were exaggerating when they said "operating at the speed of light",but thats just me

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@24 November 2003 - 01:27
I can&#39;t be bothered to read that, balamm. Electricity is close enough to being the speed of light in my book.

yes close but did you ever take into consideration that electrons in a circuit experience something called resistance, which produce heat?

light doesn&#39;t always travel at the speed of light either, by passing light through a range of mediums scientists were able to slow photons to a crawl.

[bigdawgfoxx]

You have an awesome comp...just wanted to let you know..and would a CPU with 8 trillion operations be alot more then todays CPUs?

[_John_Lennon_]

No way 256 , class 2 lasers i guess. depends on exactly how they have it set up, are going to use less power than the current silicon chips we have out.

Hmm, I wonder what kind of lasers that are going to be doing that computing power, seems a bit odd.

[Sveegaard]

1) The speed of electrons (electricity) is MAX 1/10th the speed of light - and alot slower in wires.

2) The processor is about 2 THz, as far as I remember. Quite impressive And no cooling required, thanks to the light.