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Chienworks wrote on 6/24/2006, 6:11 AM
Hmmm. How does a chip download a movie? Wouldn't that require a network connection of some sort? How large is the movie file? One of the movies sitting here on my shelf is only about 4 minutes long. Compressed to 56K WMV it's only about 1MB. 5 seconds is SLOW for that kind of download. On the other hand, "The Return of the King" (to pick an example at random) is 208 minutes long. An uncompressed 1080 24p version of it would be around 1.7TB. To download that in 5 seconds would require just about all the fibre networks in North America working in parallel on that one job. I doubt any chip could handle that.

And ... 350 gig what? gigahertz? gigabytes? giganoodles?

It looks like if that's all they had to say about it then they surely don't know much about it at all. ;)
ECB wrote on 6/24/2006, 6:29 AM
You can read about it here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1979115,00.asp

Ed B
JJKizak wrote on 6/24/2006, 7:17 AM
It was "newspaper retoric" so they left out a lot of physical laws and constants that exist in our Milky Way Galazy.

JJK
JackW wrote on 6/24/2006, 11:55 AM
It's actually the transistor that's so fast, not the chip, if I read the article correctly.

"After cooling down a silicon-germanium chip to approximately 451 degrees Fahrenheit below 0, or 4.5 kelvin, Georgia Tech was able to clock the transistor at 500-GHz, versus a speed of about 350-GHz at room temperature. "

And, as I read it, there is no mention of downloading anything, merely the implication of throughput.

The article is pretty confusing.

Jack
autopilot wrote on 6/24/2006, 1:16 PM
They said it will be a few years in developement because they do not know how it works.


Maybe I should put out a press realease on my UFO, because it's a few years away, and I have yet to figure out how it works.

Things must be slow in the tech world.