Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Wol wrote:
> On 04/06/2024 23:11, Dale wrote:
>> I started a thread maybe a decade ago about where computers were
>> going next.  Even then, clock frequency was getting close to the
>> limit.  At some point, a high frequency just can't go down a
>> motherboard and all its traces.  It seems to combat that problem,
>> they are putting as much of the fast stuff as they can on the CPU die
>> which can handle the higher frequencies.  It kinda makes sense
>> really.  I still wonder if one day, we buy a board with a chip,
>> memory slots and then a couple ports for video, data storage and user
>> inputs.  That's it.  In a way, it's not far from that now.
>
> I don't know how long ago it was, but it's quite a long time ago that
> silicon traces got so slim that that quantum tunnelling is a problem.
> Are we down to 5nm traces?
>
> Either way, we are down to traces about 5 or 10 atoms wide. At which
> point electrons can just "magically" quantum jump between tracks.
> Obviously, this is quite serious before if your ones and noughts
> consist of just a few electrons, and they can randomly jump about,
> you're going to get bit errors left right and centre.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
> .
>


According to the link Mark posted, they are down to 3 nm on some Apple
M3 and M4 chips.  At that size, how much current can even flow through
that thing???  There are several others at 4 nm and 5nm.  Quite a few
actually.  It seems they found a way to break quantum law.  o_O  They
seem to have done that about 3 years ago. 

Somebody has a serious slide rule.  O_O 

Dale

:-)  :-)