• IBM, 3M team up on 3D semiconductor
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WILL IT BLEND?!
Hmm, will these payout better than Ruby Semiconductors?
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;32218402]Server Grade coolers, IBM has never been a consumer company anyway[/QUOTE] So we'll expect modules with freon cooling units.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;32218402]Server Grade coolers, IBM has never been a consumer company anyway[/QUOTE] You know, speaking of CPU coolers I've always thought...Don't you guys think that a simple fan and a hunk of metal fins is a bit of a primitive method? Sure, it works but still.
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;32227106]You know, speaking of CPU coolers I've always thought...Don't you guys think that a simple fan and a hunk of metal fins is a bit of a primitive method? Sure, it works but still.[/QUOTE] What else do you suggest, a freezeray?
If they can pull this off without a CPU turning into a little puddle of lead and PVC in mere seconds due to the utter massive amounts of heat that would be generated, than this could very well be the future of processors.
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;32227106]You know, speaking of CPU coolers I've always thought...Don't you guys think that a simple fan and a hunk of metal fins is a bit of a primitive method? Sure, it works but still.[/QUOTE] It's somehow cheaper than using a refrigerated or liquid cooled solution. It's also a lot less prone to failure when engineered right. Look at the original G5 towers. The air cooling in them was next to silent.
[QUOTE=Wam;32182829]If they become able to stack regular chips ontop of each other, doesn't that mean processing power will basically explode, since if you stack 10 chips, and it says they intend to do 100's, you already have 10 times the processing power of the most powerful cpu available. Why would we ever need a new cpu again? It seems like they're locking up the cpu market, atleast until the power of 100 advanced cpu's at once is no longer enough.[/QUOTE] I think it'll face similar problems to multi-coring. A quad core is not twice as fast as a a dual core, and there comes a point very quickly where adding more CPUs simply doesn't increase computational power. The article mentions "system on a chip", so I imagine there'll be several CPUs, GPUs, memory, possibly blue-tooth and wi-fi, maybe even an ssd? Anyway, it's a good stop-gap measure until quantum computing becomes commercial.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;32204199]Computers will be a series of cubes.[/QUOTE] Then how will the internet work? Tubes and cubes don't connect.
[QUOTE=QwertySecond;32231698]I think it'll face similar problems to multi-coring. A quad core is not twice as fast as a a dual core, and there comes a point very quickly where adding more CPUs simply doesn't increase computational power. The article mentions "system on a chip", so I imagine there'll be several CPUs, GPUs, memory, possibly blue-tooth and wi-fi, maybe even an ssd? Anyway, it's a good stop-gap measure until quantum computing becomes commercial.[/QUOTE] This problem actually has a solution. Programs are being designed to include more parallelism, which will reap the benefits of multiple cores and gpus.
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