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Ratm · Dec 16, 2001, 03:32 AM

Motorola unveils 'revolutionary' superfast microchip technology
Who else has know about this.. http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...sp?story=92371

slipjack · Dec 16, 2001, 03:47 AM

Originally posted by Ratm:
Motorola unveils 'revolutionary' superfast microchip technology
Who else has know about this.. http://news.independent.co.uk/busine...sp?story=92371

wtg for a first post... thanks for the heads up.

silverghost · Dec 16, 2001, 05:04 AM

Provided that this is true all i can say is that the future looks bright indeed! I second that great heads up.

aloha

JoeG4 · Dec 16, 2001, 08:06 AM

Provided with that info, I think Apple's gonna get a NICE Bost on the G6

Looks like curtains to x86!!!! WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!! 70GHZ HERE WE COME!!!

Nimisys · Dec 16, 2001, 01:16 PM

so i take it the mhz myth only matters, if you are getting your ass handed to you.

that really valadates that claim

NeoMac · Dec 16, 2001, 01:27 PM

Originally posted by Nimisys:
so i take it the mhz myth only matters, if you are getting your ass handed to you.

that really valadates that claim

Thank you for that. You beat me to it.

Fyre4ce · Dec 16, 2001, 01:34 PM

That's true. Though, gallium arsenide is a much more "legit" way of increasing clock than installing a 20-stage pipeline...

sek929 · Dec 16, 2001, 01:52 PM

Originally posted by Fyre4ce:
That's true. Though, gallium arsenide is a much more "legit" way of increasing clock than installing a 20-stage pipeline...

Damn you beat me to that.

NeoMac · Dec 16, 2001, 02:46 PM

Okay, there is no doubt that the future of computing is nothing short of astonishing.
If by 2010 we have 70Ghz processors + GeForce 16s from nVidia and we are probably talking about consumer virtual reality systems.

$10 says games will be first to use VR.

What else are we going to do with all this insane computing power?

Dec 16, 2001, 04:17 PM

Originally posted by NeoMac:
Okay, there is no doubt that the future of computing is nothing short of astonishing.
If by 2010 we have 70Ghz processors + GeForce 16s from nVidia and we are probably talking about consumer virtual reality systems.

$10 says games will be first to use VR.

What else are we going to do with all this insane computing power?

Military training simulations.

Apple Pro Underwear · Dec 16, 2001, 04:46 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:


Military training simulations.

or porn.

if it is true, i'd like to see the unsharpmask in photoshop, lol

Scrod · Dec 17, 2001, 05:30 PM

Heh, I can see it now-
"I've got the new G7 at 70 GHz, and window resizing is STILL slow in Mac OS X!!"

SunSeeker · Dec 17, 2001, 05:44 PM

from the article

The technology will be licensed by Motorola to other chip manufacturers, such as Intel. IQE hopes to be involved in the manufacturing process.

OverclockedHomoSapien · Dec 17, 2001, 06:30 PM

Easy there, cowboys!

I would take this news with a grain of salt, if I were you all. Motorola has not yet demonstrated that they can break 1 GHz! I don't believe they can hit 70 GHz in a PRODUCTION chip for one second. Maybe 10-20 years from now, ok, but for now this is bogus.

Dan Szwarc · Dec 17, 2001, 08:43 PM

so i take it the mhz myth only matters, if you are getting your ass handed to you.

Intel: "Mr. Jobs?"
Jobs: "Yes?"
Intel: "Here you go, sir."
Jobs: "What's this?"
Intel: "Your ass, sir. On a platter."
Jobs: "Damn Motorola..."

Great quote!

my7200 · Dec 17, 2001, 10:26 PM

Originally posted by Dan Szwarc:


Intel: "Mr. Jobs?"
Jobs: "Yes?"
Intel: "Here you go, sir."
Jobs: "What's this?"
Intel: "Your ass, sir. On a platter."
Jobs: "Damn Motorola..."

Great quote!

your a f*cken jerk... got any other bull$hit remarks you want to say?... oh check out the sgi/sun sites before coming up with that one... mr original

AirSluf · 01:41 AM

EnglishBoy · Dec 18, 2001, 08:49 PM

Gallium Arsenide technology was used 10+ years ago in the Cray supercomputers. I seem to remember that they were very difficult to produce but extremely efficient. However - Intel is bulls**tting about the coming years bringing 'Terrahurtz' processors with some form of new technology. I'm not sure of the details - only that the Terrahurtz claim is rubbish - check out the semiconductor link on the register
web page

Hemingray · Dec 19, 2001, 04:16 PM

Gigahertz? PuhLEEEZE...

Bring on the terahertz...PETAhertz....EXAHERTZ!

Mr. Gumby: My brain hurts!

Honestly... megahertz is grand and all but it's not everything... I think the article is more in tune with the technological breakthrough of the chip, not necessarily its clock numbers... but 70GHz is still pretty impresive.

Apple Pro Underwear · Dec 19, 2001, 07:42 PM

Imagine.....

Quad 70Ghz.

CLassify that as a super duper computer

Dec 19, 2001, 08:16 PM

Wait for Moto to deliver a 1 GHz + chip before getting excited about any 70 GHz chips. My god you people have your panties in a bunch over nothing. There probably won't even be a G5 at MWSF!

Dec 19, 2001, 08:27 PM

Originally posted by NeoMac:
Okay, there is no doubt that the future of computing is nothing short of astonishing.
If by 2010 we have 70Ghz processors + GeForce 16s from nVidia and we are probably talking about consumer virtual reality systems.

$10 says games will be first to use VR.

What else are we going to do with all this insane computing power?

Games were the first to use VR. Remember Virtual Boy?
Super Scope 6 for the Super Nintendo. Even movies used it before with such movies as lawnmower man. And the defunct language vrml. we can't condone such moronicacy to come back can we?

11011001 · Jan 2, 2002, 03:47 AM

Here is one application:
70 Ghz may be able to render a 500,000 polygon hypernurbes scene, with bump mapping, multiple light sources, each with shawdows, and mutliple transparency objects pretty damn fast. Depending on the way the chip works, 70 Ghz chip like that, may be more than 70 x's faster than a g4 at 1 Ghz!!! So perhaps realtime rendering of that scene? Now that would be nice!!!

Can anyone say Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within graphics on a personal computer?

Also, AI would sure be helped out with this. Perhaps by the time this comes out, say about 6 (taking into acount mores law, and things) we may be about another 20 years from a true AI? (wishful thinking, I know)

Anyways, if you want that kind of speed in a computer now, try getting one of those super conducting processors, that are theorized to have a performance level 1000x's faster than any current chip. This technology by the way, is being applied to solve the problem of the extreme ineffeciency of super computers like deep blue, that is caused by processors having to spend alot of their time just routing information to other processors, and managing idle processors so that they are not idle. Anyways, they talked about that in scientific american in the summer I think.
Of course you would have to have a tank full of liquid hydrogen sitting next to your computer!!!

JoeG4 · Jan 2, 2002, 06:38 AM

As long as it has ADC, and I can use my Cinema display, BRING IT ON!!!

mitchell_pgh · Jan 2, 2002, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by NeoMac:


What else are we going to do with all this insane computing power?

download porn...

Jan 2, 2002, 02:42 PM

And this is why MOTO has been getting rid of all their fab facilities. They know this tech is seriously out of date. Time to build some 70GHZ facilities

--Helen-- · Jan 2, 2002, 05:16 PM

Jinkies,

This stuff is way beyond rumor sites. Gosh, that sounds so familiar.

GlobalNomad · Jan 2, 2002, 07:16 PM

With 70gHZ encryption is going to be cracked faster and faster. I wonder what would happen if you linked 50 of this 70gHZ computers. /me ponders about seti

*drowns in own drool*

vsurfer · Jan 3, 2002, 02:47 PM

[10 digits+primitive man's cognitive function...abacus...cuneiform and wax tablet...mechanical adding machines (i remember playng with those fun contraptions in my dad's office in the 70's)....pocket calculator......punch card computers...early IBM and Apple home pc's...g4 supercomputers as home pc's...then what?]

Increasing computing speeds by geometrical proportions, with the odd quantum leap here and there, doesn't sound too outrageous to me. More like history repeating itself. But it does raise some questions in my mind

How long would it take for programmers and companies to create new applications that could literally not only exploit but PROFIT from the new architecture (assuming there is a new architecture)?

And with a 70 ghz chip, what kind of bottle necks would be experienced with the current 133 mhz system bus. What kind of system buses would we be looking at in the future?
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[optical computers, why not? - just one of many fun technologies you can play with in Alpha Centauri]

tullamore · Jan 3, 2002, 09:43 PM

I'll buy a dual 70Ghz mac!

Better yet quad 70Ghz PowerBook! Top that one MacWorld!

Capt Shane · Jan 3, 2002, 11:36 PM

seti....omg... at 70 ghz... can't comprehend mind reboot needed......

ironknee · Jan 4, 2002, 12:44 AM

this is the first thing that would be way beyond....

if true....wow

Sharky K. · Jan 4, 2002, 12:47 PM

for every classic app it can start a new OS 9 system so you also have true protected memory and multi-processing with OS 9

jobs at macworld: This G7 takes only 1.2 milisec to complete this photoshop file. the old G7 with less mhz did it in 2 milisec. This is great for pro's... less time needed to complete the job

[ 01-04-2002: Message edited by: Sharky K. ]

mike one · Jan 4, 2002, 01:24 PM

Originally posted by Scrod:
Heh, I can see it now-
"I've got the new G7 at 70 GHz, and window resizing is STILL slow in Mac OS X!!"

^^^
best post in thread award.
have a nice weekend. y'all.

Tristrami · Jan 4, 2002, 02:12 PM

this thread is in Power Macs because.....?

Jan 4, 2002, 05:24 PM

Remember,

We have been able to fly to Mars for 20 years, we still do not live there.