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From: andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       )
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Clock Rates
Summary: world record for speed
Keywords: fast references quantam GaAs heterostructure ballistic
Message-ID: <405@blenheim.nsc.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 14:01:36 GMT
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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I read recently in the trade press that Hughes had bettered the world
record for device speed, currently held by themselves. They constructed
a ring oscillator at 0.6 THz. This was, I believe, a bipolar silicon
process, and was definitely at room temperature. Any details, anyone?
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