Yellow Diamonds & an 81ghz Processor

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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html

A singel 3 carat Yellow diamond takes a couple of days and costs $100. It retails for $10-$15,000. Virtually indistiguishable from "real" diamonds.

It also describes a company making perfect diamonds- not just gemstone quality, we're talking nearly as perfect as a carbon-atom crystal can theoretically form- via vapor deposition. An inch square and builds up at half a millimeter a day. Two months and you could theoretically have a perfect diamond a full inch on a side.

More interestingly, the vapor deposition can be a plating, similar to coating things with Titanium Nitride, which is also a vapor-deposition process.

Now, combine that with a prototype diamond-semiconductor chip that operates at 81 Gigahertz:

http://www.eetimes.com/at/hpm/news/OEG20030822S0005

Eighty-one Gigahertz. Kind of makes your Pentium 4 at 3.5 Ghz look a little weak? They think that the diamond technology they're working on now, could lead to 200 or 300 Ghz processors.

TeraHz computers are not far off.

Amazing...

AO
 
Originally posted by Attila_Da_Hun
Makes my 500 megahertz seem even slower.
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Damnit, you had to have a slower computer than me.

Although I managed to break the GHZ barrier last year with my PIII.

I remember telling MistaX I had a PII 266 once and he laughed at me for like sixty thousand hours.
 
Originally posted by Race Idiot
Damnit, you had to have a slower computer than me.

Although I managed to break the GHZ barrier last year with my PIII.

I remember telling MistaX I had a PII 266 once and he laughed at me for like sixty thousand hours.
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Dude I got this thing running like my 800. This thing is chuck ful of ram and other party favors.
 
Originally posted by Attila_Da_Hun
Dude I got this thing running like my 800. This thing is chuck ful of ram and other party favors.
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Heh, same here.
This computer I use on a regular basis is only a PIII 600. But I have 1 gig of ram, which helps and a few other bits and bobs. Stupidly enough, my decent'ish computer (PIII 1.1GHZ) wont accept more than 512mb of ram. Wheras this crappy IBM I got for nothing accepts more.

Oh well.

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
That is almost seven years. I submit that you have exaggerated. Greatly.
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Submit away.
 
My old computer has an 800mhz and I never wished it was faster. My new computer has a 2.0ghz and I really can't tell the difference. Unless youare doing high level graphics 800mhz 256mb ram is plenty. But 2.0ghz with 1.0g of ram is better. Test your machine by making an eight foot wide rock surface in photoshop, then transform it to twice it's size, invert it, then apply a watercolor filter to it. See how long it takes.
 
My computer would shutdown if I tried to do that. It takes 30 seconds to apply a cutout filter.

Does anyone think the title of this thread would make a cool song? They Might Be Giants could make a kickass song with that title.
 
Mine takes about five minutes, give or take. I always make things really big and one time I saw fit to keep a background bigger and bigger for whatever reason. I'd transform it, hit enter, and go do something else for a while.
 
Originally posted by milefile
I think he's just writing it how you'd say it. You can't really say ghz. Don't people just say gig?
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I say "Gig-uh-hurts" prounounced like that. I don't actually say GHz. That would be dolt-ish.
 
Did you know that there is a Terr-hertz proccessor out there now that will work 3 times faster then the hman brain?
 

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