MasterAkumaMatata
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What's faster than light speed? :lol:
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Processing at the Speed of Light
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What's faster than light speed? :lol:
Pearl Jammzz
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haha, and they would claim such things like "Faster than the speed of light!" "pumps 1 billion polygons a sec" etc.........gotta love how sony likes ot hype up it's stuff Ã
BTW, does sony hype evrything else up liek they do their PS consoles? Or so they tell the truth about other items?
BTW, does sony hype evrything else up liek they do their PS consoles? Or so they tell the truth about other items?
Originally posted by MasterAkumaMatata@Nov 3, 2003 @ 02:55 PM
An Israeli startup company has demonstrated a processor that uses optics to process data instead of silicon, enabling it to compute at the speed of light. The device is a digital signal processor that can perform 8 trillion operations per second. It is 1,000 times as fast as a typical PC. It uses 256 lasers to perform calculations. The device processes visual information and will be used in radar, weather forecasting and mobile telephone systems. For details see http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,128...w=wn_tophead_13
What's faster than light speed? :lol:
I would like to know how operation processing is compared with the speed of light...
Does this mean that operations are processed before being addressed?
From what I read, this thing isn't real good at the type of complex calculations needed for a general purpose CPU- which is why the intended applications are for embedded devices and the like. Also, keep in mind that there isn't any RAM fast enough to use with this thing, so that's a pretty big limitation as well.
As for the 'speed of light' thing, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't electrical pulses travel over a wire at nearly the speed of light anyway?
As for the 'speed of light' thing, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't electrical pulses travel over a wire at nearly the speed of light anyway?
Over copper I think they travel at about .7 times the speed of light which is still pretty fast, but there are gains that can be made from a move to optical processing.
