The World’s Fastest Super Chip

August 15, 2007

The world’s fastest silicon-based microchip has been demonstrated by scientists in the US.

The prototype operates at speeds up to 500 gigahertz (GHz), more than 100 times faster than current desktop PC chips.

The researchers at IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology had to super-cool the chip with liquid helium, to break the world record.

To break the speed record, the researchers super-cooled an IBM prototype of a new “high frequency” device to -268.5C, using liquid helium.

This temperature is just above absolute zero and when cooled, the chips were able to perform half a trillion calculations every second, a speed of 500 GHz.

Via BBC

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4 Responses to “The World’s Fastest Super Chip”

  1. John Simmons on August 18th, 2007 11:04 pm

    awesome! If and when this type of super processing power becomes available to the end user, watch out!

  2. Oat Willy on August 23rd, 2007 1:34 am

    It’d be like Jesus man!

  3. Professor X-Tended Brain Pan on August 24th, 2007 2:29 pm

    Nice observation, Willy! (for a half wit!)

  4. Professor John Simmons on August 25th, 2007 3:01 am

    In the famous words of M.C. Hammer, YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS!!!

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