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- itguru624, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Does it take 1.21 gigawatts to run?
- kapstaad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"ok, I'm gonna put the 8-ball electron in the corner pocket...."
- itguru624, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11@ merreborn (yesterday?)
He was qutoing Back to the future. (thus the flux capacitor)
Dumbass - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Unless your talking quantum processing (which is a different thing entirely) there is no way you can go above 0s and 1s. Sure, you could take two transistors and make 0, 1, 2, 3; or three and get 0-7 but you'd be doing the exact same thing at the hardware level.
- Shade00a00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just because its switching speed is 3 THz, doesn't mean it could operate at that frequency for more than a few operations -- on a device so small and fast, and even more so at room temperatures, the thermal crosstalk is going to reach HUGE levels, and three quarters of the operations will probably be devoted to error correction.
- gizmo490, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The next big thing can take years of research to become commercially viable. Flash memory was at one point "the next big thing" and here we are using it now in tons of little gadgets. Give some of these technologies a couple years if not more and I am sure we will see some of them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So you're not going to have a new computer for the next 25 years then?
- duke_nate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I love hearing about all these new super processors, awesome batteries, etc.... But when was the last time that there was something very new, that just blows everything out of the water, that actually makes it to market? Everyone says they have the next big thing, yet we never get to use it?
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Don't forget the holographic hard disks that can store 100s of terabytes each...
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Moore's Law applies to the number of transistors, not the clock speed.
- databyss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4ballistic deflection transistor (a.k.a. flux capacitor)
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What I find funny, is that even HE said it would run at room temperature.
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"at room temperature, could operate at a blazing three terahertz"
At room temp? That is amazing to even operate at 1 THz... 3 Thz is very possible to acheive without much worry about limitations of PWR and Heat dissapation.. - kob0724, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bring it on!
- jabowa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just because they have a design for a transistor that can operate at that speed doesn't mean a processor will operate at the same speed...a processor is a collection of transistors. Anyways, this would effectively pave the way to double digit (maybe triple?) GHz processors though :)
- evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I actually own a product using OLED, I know that was supposedly vaporware for quite a while. It's on my phone, and it makes the outer display look semi hidden since it kinda just dissapears into the casing when not in use.
- evolseven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I could see 1,0,-1 being possible, maybe not using current transistor technologys, but its within feasability, hell at this point from what I understand of computers 0 is on and 1 is whatever voltage.. probably the core voltage of 1.5/1.6 volts.. so I could easily envision a positive voltage state and a negative voltage state, or even several distinct voltage states.. maybe 6,4.5,3,1.5,0,-1.5,-3,-4.5,-6 or so on.
Not doable with current transistors, nor with anything I doubt anyone has even envisioned at this point.. but the guy has a point.. why only on and off?? why not use an analog voltage curve so that you can accurately portray any floating point?
Just because it is not possible with todays technology does not mean its not possible. - tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3They'll have to build a time machine just to test the thing.
- Rolleyes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Yea something tells me that power and temperature are going to be a limiting factor in this. Even though it can operate at room temperature, its going to take some kind of cooling to get it to perform at the level we'd and they'd like.
- mikerotech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2how many times are people going to get this confused?
- Norweed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As a U of R grad I's say that RIT isn't exactly a rival so to speak. That's like saying Hoover High and the Eagles are rivals. ;-)
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Say a CPU built on this technology operates at 25 Ghz (a number pulled directly from my ass) there are still many other components in your pc that cannot do anything with that much speed.
I mean, at some point doesn't bus speed increase beyond perephrial capacity?
What could be really really neat is that it does it all at **room temperature**. - MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't this like Old News?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This transistor is not useful in a general-purpose CPU. Even if we do have terrahertz processors some day, it will not be any time soon.
- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just looking at their diagram, the whole principle seems pretty flawed. I'd like to see what they can do with it though. I also wonder how many of these an electron can travel through without need for another 'boost' to achieve it's ballistic switching. Doesn't deflection severely slow down a projectile - even an electron?
- ayber, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0thank you refrigerant site http://www.ekovat.com aspera danfoss copeland and tecumseh
http://www.sogutma-sistemleri.com - compressedaudio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Will dark matter be the next hydrogen?
- Jon855, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well as a student at RIT, Rochester Inst. of Tech, I welcome our rival into the turf. I would like to see this take off if this design has many benefits other than the obivious speed gain. While this is not the processor speeds themselves, no doubt it'll lead to higher speed clocks for the cpus and that can't be bad at all right?
Roll on UoR. - firstdueco41, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We're talking about transistor theory here...not the entire processor. Many many transistors make up a processor; cool your jets cowboy, let's not put the cart before the horse!
- pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1According to Moore's Law "processing power doubles every 18 months".
Intel and AMD both are expecting to release Quad Core 4 Gigaherts per core (16 Gigahertz total) by Q1 '07. Which means that:
Q3 '08 = 32 Gigahertz
Q1 '10 = 64 Gigahertz
Q3 '11 = 128 Gigahertz
Q1 '13 = 256 Gigahertz
Q3 '14 = 512 Gigahertz
Q1 '16 = 1 Terahertz
Q3 '17 = 2 Terahertz
Q1 '19 = 4 Terahertz
So by Moore's Law we should reach 1 Terahertz by March of 2016 (less than 10 years) and reach 4 Terahertz by March 2019 (less than 13 years). - mcottier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What do you mean? They said it would run at three terahertz in room temperature.
- kevinharbin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Everyone knows that Raphael Tsu (http://www.ece.uncc.edu/faculty/fac/tsu/) invented the tera-hertz... Well you do if you were in his class.
- yongjiehu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, anybody know where can I find the original publication about the Terahertz transistor?
Thanks! - omegaworks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@itguru
It shouldn't - the amount of energy required to deflect the path of an electron is minuscule. They mentioned that since the electromagnets don't need to guide the electron along the full path, both design complexity and energy use were reduced. - peter303, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Can they make a billion for $100?
None of these really scale up to massively parallel silicon.
They have niche uses like modulating attennas in cell phones. - hillerman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2What about the heat from friction of the electrons bouncing off the little triangle? I'd like to know what kind of heat this thing puts out.
- inferno10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0With a name like that, one has to wonder what would happen if a ballistic deflection transistor blew.
- killin1a4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Too bad timewave zero is goona happen in 2012.....
- bayerj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I am only seeing this from a "computer speed" perspective. And then it's not important, wether speed comes from faster or more transistors.
- killin1a4, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0me tew!!!
- Leathersoup, on 10/12/2007, -12/+9What the hell is a gigawatt?!! (sorry couldn't resist)
- P5ycHo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Why only go for 0 and 1?
You could do much more 'values' using this technology. - jibblies, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I think I just terahertz'd in my pants.
- bayerj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0According to Moore's Law we will reach this speed in 17 years anyway.
Does not seem that of a great news to me. - jabab, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3One point twenty one jigawatts. 1.21 gigawatts makes too much sense.
- pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1My next computer will have the following specs:
Quad (as in 4 seperate) 16 Core 128 Bit Processors each running at 3 Terahertz (per core) for a total CPU Power of 192 Terahertz.
Quad PCI-e2 (next gen PCI-e) 128 Bit 3d Graphics accellerators running each with 1GB Memory
Quad PCI-e2 NAND FLASH DRIVES each with 1 Terabyte of storage
16 Firewire 1600 (as in GB/s - not available yet) ports connected directly to the PCI-e2 bus for connecting external nand flash drives, printers, cameras, etc.
Quad 10'W X 6'H ePaper LCD's placed on each wall of my computer room - the run from the ceiling to 2 foot off the floor and all the way around the room
The actual computer will be built into a sealed container (vault) and built into the furniture (probably coffee table) in the computer room. Because it has no moving parts it will be completely sealed and filled with Refrigerant (like in an Air Conditioner or Fridge) and will have two pipes that go to a radiator/compressor also built into the coffee table. The computer compartment of the coffee table will have thermal and sound proofing insulation and will have a couple 115 V 6" Low-Noise cooling fans that cool the radiator as the freon passes through it. Those fans will be enclosed in with a shared (piped) exhast port (like the Bose Speakers use to get that BASS) so that the only noise will be a very very deep (and likely hard to hear by humans) rumble. The top of the coffee table will be covered with ePaper LCD's with Touch Screen abilities and will function as the keyboard, mouse and main monitor. A Nintendo WII style (split) wireless controller will be used for game play, presentations, surfing the web, reading books, controlling WinAmp, etc. and will also be able to move programs, games, etc. from screen to screen (remember there are 5 screens (1 on the coffee table & 4 on the walls). - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Leathersoup:
http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Agigawat
Gigawatt: Unit of power equal to 1 billion watts.
Got any other questions you just "can't resist" asking? - clemsontiger, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4This stuff is amazing. I mean if this is true, i think my next computer will be a quad core 3 terahertz processor. Science is moving at such an incredible rate. but like the guy said up there, does someone need to plug into a nuclear generator for this?
- blueskydiver76, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4No it requires something a little more serious....a little something we like to call darkmatter.
- josepuerto, on 10/12/2007, -13/+0slamalamadingdong
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