Researchers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have developed a super-fast transistor, the building block of computer chips, that they say could have applications ranging from aiding in medical diagnoses to reducing the power consumption of cell phones. The microscopic transistor can process more than 600 billion operations a second — or 600 GHz — at peak speed, a maximum operating speed of 604 Ghz. The previous record was 560 GHz.
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Super-Fast Transistor Could Speed Quicker Electron Chips
Posted by: Susan B. Shor April 13, 2005 09:30 AMResearchers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have developed a super-fast transistor, the building block of computer chips, that they say could have applications ranging from aiding in medical diagnoses to reducing the power consumption of cell phones. The microscopic transistor can process more than 600 billion operations a second — or 600 GHz — at peak speed, a maximum operating speed of 604 Ghz. The previous record was 560 GHz.