Maybe Apple has the Op chip
I was thinking it's possible that Apple has the op chip,which would be equivalent in speed to a 15 to 30 ghz silicon chip.If they do that would be a spectacular announcement.Whatever they have I can't imagine that its just some faster G4 or iMac,or even the G5,which would be great,but I would consider it to be revolutionary,to be revolutionary something has to have the capability of changing the way you live.
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That is, of course, assuming you were talking about optical computing?
However, a speed jump that big would be quite signicant.
.: Michael
A speed bump that large would undoubtedly be quashed by the DOD before it was ever announced to the masses.
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Interesting you say that,because I think it already has been.When the op chip was first announced it generated a lot of press and then quietly disappeared soon after it was announced that the military would begin using it within six months.
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But optical proccessing? isn't that big and expensive?
Oh and why would apple have an optical processor? They dont' design this stuff or build it . Thats why motorola and IBM is around and why we have thsi whole mhz and g4 g3 probs
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And a half. Optical chips for communication purposes are around, but they don't process data. Non-linear optics is a fun area, and fast, but they are'nt making processors just yet. A typical switch may be 1 cm long, although very narrow, of course, because we are using single mode waveguides. There are ways of making them smaller but chips with more than a few gates don't exist yet. Gigaflops! no, GigaHertz, possibly but very simple circuits.
If you want, I can show you a design for a circuit operating at 140GHz, problem is, it only contains 6 transistors. (And has a tendency to shatter when you look at it).
Michael