Johnny Smith <joh### [at] telebotnet> wrote:
:         Uhhhm,  your not going to believe this.  But that was done already.
: And yeah,  it allowed them to run the chip at outrageous speeds!
: What they did was take something like a 486 or something rediculous...
: (I know it wasn't a pentium)  and hook a compressor up to it.  They
: somehow surrounded the chip in a casing,  then used something like compressed
: ammonia or something to super cool the chip.  (if I remember correctly,  they
: lowered the
: temperature to something like -30 degrees F )  They were able to (reliably) run
: this
: 486 or whatever it was,  at something like 600 mhz.  It was a pretty interesting
: article.

  I hardly believe this. If a transistor can't change its state any faster,
then it can't.
  Don't believe everything you read.

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