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Amazingly the Hz barrier of around 4-6 Ghz seems to have been blown away. You wanted to run games like Crysis with ease. This would run any number of that game with ease like lifting a feather I bet. The performance gains of something like this will be amazing. Although its unlikely that consumers would touch until 2015 or later. Either way this would be an amazing transformation to computer chips and graphics cards and RAM and anything else built on silicon boards. Years ahead of when I expected a Terahertz chip to emerge.
QUOTE This isn't much though when you consider the research presented at MIT. Scientists at the renowned American university has designed a microchip that can process data at unsurpassed speeds. They claim that its new chipset will be able to operate at unimaginable 500-1000GHz, in other words at Terahertz levels.
The substance used is carbon and it is the very key to the high frequencies. The researchers managed to build a circuit using the graphene, made from a single layer of carbon. The circuit consisting of only one lonely transistor will be used for frequency multiplication and by creating a pure signal with no need for filtration it will be able to achieve these frequencies without problems.
Researchers have been investigating the potential of graphene since the "discovery" in 2004 and the unveiled use that could actually reach the market relatively soon.
It all comes down to making graphene compatible with wafer manufacturing and Tom Palacios, professor at MIT, believes that we will see graphene-based chips in 1-2 years.
QUOTE "In physics today, graphene is, arguably, the most exciting topic," Palacios says. It is the strongest material ever discovered, and also has a number of unsurpassed electrical properties, such as "mobility" -- the ease with which electrons can start moving in the material, key to use in electronics -- which is 100 times that of silicon, the standard material of computer chips."
1 Thz CPU chip
QUOTE This isn't much though when you consider the research presented at MIT. Scientists at the renowned American university has designed a microchip that can process data at unsurpassed speeds. They claim that its new chipset will be able to operate at unimaginable 500-1000GHz, in other words at Terahertz levels.
The substance used is carbon and it is the very key to the high frequencies. The researchers managed to build a circuit using the graphene, made from a single layer of carbon. The circuit consisting of only one lonely transistor will be used for frequency multiplication and by creating a pure signal with no need for filtration it will be able to achieve these frequencies without problems.
Researchers have been investigating the potential of graphene since the "discovery" in 2004 and the unveiled use that could actually reach the market relatively soon.
It all comes down to making graphene compatible with wafer manufacturing and Tom Palacios, professor at MIT, believes that we will see graphene-based chips in 1-2 years.
QUOTE "In physics today, graphene is, arguably, the most exciting topic," Palacios says. It is the strongest material ever discovered, and also has a number of unsurpassed electrical properties, such as "mobility" -- the ease with which electrons can start moving in the material, key to use in electronics -- which is 100 times that of silicon, the standard material of computer chips."
1 Thz CPU chip
