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Fastest Processors a Walkthrough

Posted on | April 13, 2010 | No Comments

World is travelling faster and faster each day. People are opting for more and faster things. In last two centuries our way of transport was horses and some animals. At the end of the century we discovered the diesel engine which allows us to go faster than horses and animals. From the day we found diesel engine we never looked back. We have reached the speed to go to moon and run a bullet train on magnetic path.  We have reached the speed of voice and beyond that with the Jet Engines.  Reaching 250-400 Miles per hour on a sport bike is like a joke these days.

When we have reached this much speed in traveling how we can lag in the electronic chips. When we started with the microprocessor in the 20th century 133 MHz was a more than life scenario for us. We started their but reached the sky soon. Today finding a 3.8 GHz processor is not a difficult thing. Even we can see 4-5 GHz processors with little modification in cooling part.

It was few years back when we had our first 1.0 GHz barrier broken by Intel and AMD processors. It was the golden day when I heard the news of 1 GHz is broken. It was unreachable by the common hands in terms of price. 800 MHz Pentium 3 was like a Harvey weight champion in the computer world.

It was the AMD’s Era after Celeron Processor from Intel. AMD claimed the world’s fastest processors crown for many years. The battle is still on, sometimes AMD is winner sometimes Intel is the winner. We can’t say one is superior to other.  This battle is running in desktop as well as Server market from last century.

If we look for the world’s single fastest processor, we need to look into super computers. IBM along with many other companies develops super computers which powers many countries needs. We talk in GHz and they talk in Teraflops that’s the difference only.

Recently I heard news; with the use of nitrogen cooling one person beat the 6 or 7 GHz barrier for processor speed. A way over anyone need. I am sure soon we will take these 10 GHz limit in practice as the CPU companies are going less than 32 nm technology. Cheers to them for doing so many efforts in building the fastest computers around the globe.

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