~What is the maximum clock rate given the state of today's technology?

It's more than that....

An African or European flux capacitor?

Is that an unladen flux capacitor?

George H.

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Warren

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Warren.

One googlehertz...

The OP should have asked what the hell the question means, it's so wierdly phrased. Unless there's a context he didn't mention because he didn't understand that it mattered.

Would an optical processor be able to run safely at a significantly higher-frequency than an electronic processor?

Lets say the optical CPU uses 400-nm-wavelength lasers in place of electronic signals, what is the max clock rate that can be performed by this theoretical CPU without experiencing any physical damage?

You should be able to do a lot better than 1 Hz/W.

Veerrrryyyy tiny junctions -- lots and lots of leakage current? :-)

Calls for a very big heat sink, though.

No. You'll put your eye out.

I dunno about that, but I _do_ know that since it's electronics, it has to be a rosin flux capacitor and not acid.

Cheers! Rich

Bleu.

Cheers! Rich

We're all taking the mickey, but its not that bad a question IMHO.

It's the sort of thing that crosses my mind when I see "researchers demonstrate 1600GHz transistor". There is a huge gap between this and actual practical - thermally limited - designs.

We are using 10GBase channels on a regular basis. It takes some wild processing to move that much data around, let alone handle several channels of it..

They are finally going to build a practical optical computer... maybe. Whoever those "they people" are.

At least that is closer than a fusion reactor. Forever ten years off.

Such press releases usually quote fT, i.e. the frequency when the current gain drops to 1, not very usable for making logic functions at such frequencies :-). As a common base amplifier, some usable power gain might still be available.

I thought it was homework.