RE: filmscanners: That's some overclocking

["Gordon Potter" <gordon-potter@home.com>]

I think something is a little overclocked. <BG>  The speed of
light is 2.99 times 10E10  (that is 3 followed by 10 zeros) cm
per second.  One of the outcomes of Einstein's theory of
relativity is nothing can travel faster then the speed of light.

I don't know the size of the actual chip, but if the chip was 1
cm long and presumably an electrical signal would have to travel
the length of the chip sometime, then in a single cycle that fast
electron would travel 1 cm.  That would be an average speed of 7
times E10 cm per second or more then twice the speed of light.
Note I said average speed.  Since the electron must start and
stop the actual top speed would need to be even faster.

In fairness I beleive chips are  smaller then 1 cm (but larger
then 0.1 cm), so my little argement is not valid; however, today
distances and the time to travel those distances are a
significant part of the limitation for chips.  So I feel with
some confidence the 70 gHZ number is not possible.  I would
personally be amazed at a number of 7 gHZ with the currently
available chip manufacturing processes -- using Xrays to layout
the grid might make  that possible.


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Gordon Potter   <twocybers@home.com>
Nashville, TN 37215
USA


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