What will happen if the computer has reached a speed of 10 GHz? What kind of software which would occur if the computer as soon as it comes? The development of hardware technology has now reached a new phase. No longer the question above forecasts but it will become a reality very soon.
Some time ago, exactly 11 April 2001, Sandia National Laboratories in the United States announced its success to build a prototype machine to produce chips using the technology of extreme ultraviolet (EUV). This is a breakthrough technology that enables the creation of micro-processors that 10x faster than the fastest computer today. The technology also enables the creation of memory chip capacity 100x more powerful than they are now. So if you're using a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz speed with 512 MB of RAM, then a few more years will present 10 GHz computer with 50 GB of RAM! Wow! Can you imagine how great application that will be present later.
EUV lithography technology used to print circuits to micro chip. Lithography technology allows us to print the circuit up to 0.1 microns wide (equivalent to 1 / 1000 the width of human hair). And the technology currently being developed to be able to print circuits as small as 0:03 until microns (30 nm). Processors are built using EUV technology can achieve speeds predicted 10 GHz in the year 2005 to 2006 (currently the fastest processor is a Pentium 4 with 1.5 GHz speed).
Prototype of machine called the Engineering Test Stand is the result of cooperation between government and industry that is among the three laboratories owned by the U.S. Department of Energy by a consortium of semiconductor companies with so-called EUV LLC. Included in the consortium are Intel Corporation, Motorola Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Micron Technology Inc.., Infineon Technologies, and International Business Machines. While all three U.S. national laboratories is the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory in California. All of the EUV lithography research funded 100% by private industry joined in the EUV LLC, which has lasted since 1997 and approved until 2004.
The presence of higher-speed computers of course would be followed by the emergence of various applications that are increasingly powerful. Some years you may be talking through your mobile phone with your business partners in India in the Indonesian language in which the computer automatically (more precisely instant) translate into the language of India, and vice versa, your business associates also spoke in the language of India and automatically translated instantly to your phone in the Indonesian language. Something that today is still clogged by the limitations of computer speed.
With speed like that, if you want to buy something over the Internet say the latest novel written by John Grisham, entitled 'A Painted House'. You just put the item over the Internet and the Internet will find the cheapest prices around the web site book sellers around the world (one of them certainly Amazon.com). You just wait for the result (which was only briefly), click, and the cheapest prices around the world that you get.
The emergence of high-speed processor must not only affects applications that run on personal computers, but also will have an impact on embedded systems technology. With speed and memory capacity is so large, a security camera that can highlight your face (and at the same time) also identifies your face becomes very likely to be made.
Medical world that many are dealing with spatial data (image processing) will also be far more advanced than that now. Computers can now say that there are still slow to process spatial database / image database that requires power and speed of the process exceeds the ordinary data processing.
The most rapidly keep abreast of course is the application of game hardware. Such popular games Need for Speed, Age of Empires, Flight Simulator, MechWarrior course will feature a much more realistic picture of what is there now. As to whether the display about the game in 2005? We'll wait.
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