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DARPA creates first 1THz computer chip, breaks world record

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The US military's R&D division earned the world record for the fastest solid-state chip which is clocked at 1THz or 1000 GHz, the previous record was 850 GHz. The chip is known as the Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMI). The chip is intended for creating radio waves in the sub-milimeter-wave terahertz range rather than computing although, that is being looked into. The waves the chips produces are referred to as T-waves which can be used to improve radar, imaging and reconnaissance, and high bandwidth wireless networks. This tech is far from being usable so don't expect to be using anything that can run at 1THz as the power requirements and heat dissipation will be a huge problem.

 

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Current electronics using solid-state technologies have largely been unable to access the sub-millimeter band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to insufficient transistor performance. To address the "terahertz gap," engineers have traditionally used frequency conversion—converting alternating current at one frequency to alternating current at another frequency—to multiply circuit operating frequencies up from millimeter-wave frequencies. This approach, however, restricts the output power of electrical devices and adversely affects signal-to-noise ratio. Frequency conversion also increases device size, weight and power supply requirements.

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AMD be like we got dis

 

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BRB

 

off to throw my pc away

 

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AMD be like we got dis

 

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AMD be like

 

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& i'm sitting here with a Sempron ... :mellow:

Details separate people.

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What will this be used for? War! Good ol' DARPA.

 

Maybe we'll get this in a decade..

NO NOT WAR!...just killing people and stuff ya know, nothing dangerous.

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Did they put on one of those uranium cooling ponds to keep it cool?

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Well amd you have competition 

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What will this be used for? War! Good ol' DARPA.

 

Maybe we'll get this in a decade..

At this rate, probably not. :P
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It does not run Crysis?

Anyone who has a sister hates the fact that his sister isn't Kasugano Sora.
Anyone who does not have a sister hates the fact that Kasugano Sora isn't his sister.
I'm not insulting anyone; I'm just being condescending. There is a difference, you see...

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What material are they using?

They didn't say, this is the US Military.

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& i'm sitting here with a Sempron ... :mellow:

i loved the sempron....rendered videos in 8 hours  :P

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UM, what? MIT beat them to this last year. How did this get past Guinness?

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1318751 <-fully fledged ARM 7 chip btw, just single core, and not able to be mass-produced.

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What material are they using?

graphene most likely. CNT has an upper limit of 300GHz. Stanene is possible, but I didn't think they'd figured out how to attach interconnects to it yet.

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Did they put on one of those uranium cooling ponds to keep it cool?

Nope, graphene chips are more easily cooled the bigger they are. It's an amazing property of graphene. The longer a nanoribbon, the faster it conducts heat. If you put 2 feet between you and a standard freezer, you could freezerburn half a finger in less than a second.

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UM, what? MIT beat them to this last year. How did this get past Guinness?

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1318751 <-fully fledged ARM 7 chip btw, just single core, and not able to be mass-produced.

that could be that it was designed but not fully operational? Guinness is pretty strict in the validation process in stuff like this.

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that could be that it was designed but not fully operational? Guinness is pretty strict in the validation process in stuff like this.

No, it was fully operational and is fully operational with less than .2 watts of power. I was there for that demo too. they jerry-rigged their chip into a Qualcomm tablet and ran Windows on it.

 

Also, this is just a signal amplifier. Guinness is losing its edge.

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This is really cool stuff.

 

And here we are diddling around in the 3-5GHz range on our puny desktops... :P

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