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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Ballistic transport?
Message-ID: <755@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 23:42:21 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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jwatts@hpihoah.HP.COM (Jon Watts) wrote:
> The speed of the actual device connot be accurately measured due to the
> macroscopic contacts but they claim projected speed (through calculation) of
> 100 to 200 femtoseconds (0.0001 to 0.0002 nanoseconds).

Ug.  I'm perfectly comfortable down to about 0.1 ns, but there my
mind begins to booggle.  1 ns is 30 cm.  This is 30 to 60 microns.

I can't imagine a conventional processor that uses this (not that I don't
expect someone will do it; I just can't visualise what it'll be like), but
wow, what a DSP.  Real-time video processing, anyone?
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

"Don't listen to me.  I never do."