An international research group has found out how fast a computer can become maximum.
An international research group has found out how fast a computer can become maximum. Oliver Wolf - TU Graz By Christoph Pelzl One million gigahertz: This is the physical limit of the signal speed in transistors, as a German-Austrian physics team has now discovered. The maximum speed of signal transmission in microchips is about one petahertz (one million gigahertz), which is about 100,000 times faster than current transistors. Physicists from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Vienna and Graz Universities of Technology have recently published this finding in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Whether computer chips of this maximum speed can ever actually be produced is, however, questionable. Microelectronics is pursuing two approaches to making computers faster. On the one hand, work is being done to make the components ever smaller so that data transmission (signal path from A to B) literally "doesn't take so long".
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