Thomas Willhalm wrote:

> Are you sure? The light has a speed of 300.000 km per second. So a signal
> with the speed of light travels in one cycle of such a processor
> 3*10^8 / 7.794*10^11 m which makes approximately 0.38 mm. If you assume
> that a signal should be able to traverse a processor in one cycle, the
> whole processor must be smaller than 0.38 mm.

Processors can do more and more per cycle as they evolve, too. So you wouldn't
actually need an 800Ghz chip.

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