Tera Era?

How many more years do you thank before the Tera Era (in processors)?

  • Within the next 5 years

    Votes: 9 18.4%

  • Within the next 10 years

    Votes: 12 24.5%

  • Within the next 20 years

    Votes: 11 22.4%

  • Within the next 30 years

    Votes: 5 10.2%

  • Within the next 40 years

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Within the next 50 years

    Votes: 4 8.2%

  • Not in your lifetime

    Votes: 10 20.4%
  • Total voters
    49
jp198780 said:
what are you going 2 use 1THZ 4? like really, why would someone need all that speed.
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Well back in the day let's say about the late 1980's computers ran anywhere from 8MHz to 16MHz. People back then probably thought the same about this Gigahertz Era that were in today.
 
MadModder said:
IBM & Georgia Tech clocked a chip to 500 GHz.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1979104,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

Why not go for an extra 500? I say it could happen in the next 5-10 years.
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oh it CAN happen in like 1 or 2 years, but why? who cares? but frequency doesn't matter much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i mean we were at 3.8GHz a year ago!!!!!!!!! now we are down to 2.2GHz!!!!
because they aren't TRYING to find everyway to up frequency cus it doesn't matter much
 
Mattu said:
We alredy breched Terabyte HDD now how long do you'll thank it will be before teraherts processors?
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Where do you get a single 1TB HDD? Please link me to one of these, cause I can't find more than one 750GB HDD. And two doesn't count, because that would require two processors, which really isn't like a one terahertz processor. As far as this goes, it depends on what you view as "reaching" one terahertz. I could see some university and IBM reaching one terahertz with some special fabrication process in the next 10, even possibly 5 years. However, I think it'll be many years until this reaches desktops and average level computing, or even servers. Perhaps the military and NASA may be the first to see this technology.
 
jp198780 said:
what are you going 2 use 1THZ 4? like really, why would someone need all that speed.
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First thing that comes to my mind: medical research.
Another: 3-D design and modeling.
Another: statistical analysis.
Another: artificial intelligence
 
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Encore4More said:
oh it CAN happen in like 1 or 2 years, but why? who cares? but frequency doesn't matter much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i mean we were at 3.8GHz a year ago!!!!!!!!! now we are down to 2.2GHz!!!!
because they aren't TRYING to find everyway to up frequency cus it doesn't matter much
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Something tells me that THE most efficient 2.2 GHz processor will loose to ANY 1 THz Processor.
 
I think you have to look back to when floppies were like dvds now. Did you ever think about something that could hold a gb of space back then?
 
H-Bomb said:
People just say that 1Thz = 1000Ghz because it is easier.
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and who cares about that extra 24Ghz anyway! ;)

i personally don't think it will happen any time soon, firstly i can't see the point, but i suppose at one time people couldn't even see thepoint in a computer, but if it does happen, possibly in the next 50 years, or maybe it already exists, the 1Thz processor is the world, but we don't know it ;)

Lee :)
 
It's hard enough to imagine a world with Terahertz speed processors, but just think, one day processors will be measure in petahertz (1024Thz) or even exahertz (1,048,576Thz). Now thats something to think about!
 
H-Bomb said:
It's hard enough to imagine a world with Terahertz speed processors, but just think, one day processors will be measure in petahertz (1024Thz) or even exahertz (1,048,576Thz). Now thats something to think about!
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And software will still lag:P . It can be like HDDs, where only 10 years ago, 750MB was a lot. Like I said, it may be invented soon, but won't reach any type of computer any time in the near future. First of all, that article said it ran 350 at room temp. They're having limitations with silicon, while this new technology may present some abilities to continue using silicon, it's not going to be as easy as it seems, and these methods would be too expensive/odd operating conditions for them ever to serve a useful purpose. The future lies in this technology I saw which actually from IBM, has electronic currents and small metallic materials, reached high speeds at low temp on the PowerPC architecture.
 
Processors are getting faster and faster,But i soppose there will be a problem with actualy been able to cool them in the future but then again they will probably invent something which could handle the heat.
 
H-Bomb said:
It's hard enough to imagine a world with Terahertz speed processors, but just think, one day processors will be measure in petahertz (1024Thz) or even exahertz (1,048,576Thz). Now thats something to think about!
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why have exahertz, when you could have yottahertz! (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 hertz) folding workunits would be counted in seconds! and people would think tha would be slow
 
AMD said:
Processors are getting faster and faster,But i soppose there will be a problem with actualy been able to cool them in the future but then again they will probably invent something which could handle the heat.
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Yea, they had to run that at 0 kelvin to get the 500 GHz mark, where oxygen is frozen.
 
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