Why are CPUs stuck at 3Ghz

who is stuck @ 3Ghz?

your question is kinda confusing......

we are basically stuck around the 3.0 ghz viscinity because the more ghz a cpu uses, the more heat it outputs and because air is used to coolmostof the worlds processors the heat will be too much to handle and even liquid cooling has its limits, so since they are no longer able to simply compete ghz for ghz, they must find new ways for cpus to get faster while maintaining an acceptable thermal envalope

"viscinity" is not a word.
seeing how you cannot spell a simple word, it seems your whole paragraph is meaningless and untrustworthy

I've been reading Tom's for more than ten years. Your ability to spell is amazing. Why waste your talent here?

^Good to see you again man.

That's what happens when you run your manifold pressure too high, your RPM too low, and your mixture too lean.

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I will get this back on subject.

A single transistor can switch in the Terahertz range by itself and Intel has shown this off before (google it), however the copper wires and the distances between the transistors heavily limit us. We are hitting the limit of how fast electrons can flow through copper. Even though electrons can travel near the speed of light, as they pass through materials such as copper, they hit the nuclei of the copper atoms and bounce back and forth making the distance they actually travel forward somewhat slow. With all these collisions happening it creates heat due to the friction. Heat is a measure of how much an atom is vibrating back and forth. Because the copper atoms are vibrating so much it further increases the friction making even more heat while even more-so slowing down the electrons. This is why we try to keep our processors cool so we can overclock higher. With less collisions the electrons move onwards faster which can yield a higher clock speed. Also by making processors smaller it decreases the distance between the transistors which is 1 of the many reasons we are still slightly getting faster.

Processors will not get a significant clock speed increase until we use different materials. I personally think it would be great if we could build a transistor that could switch off of light. Then we should be able to hit terahert frequencies.

I am basing this off of what I know and it is kind of my theory, I did not research this so don't crucify me if I got something wrong.

Also I wanted to say I am amazed that some of you had to ask the op to rephrase and elaborate on the question. Really, is it that hard to understand? O ya, this is rhetorical, I don't actually care to read why.

yeah i think they're messing with new materials but i honestly don't see the consumer market getting these high-tech cpus even if they happen. Intel and AMD are pretty lazy and i think they'll just stick with increasing the number of cores rather than having faster ones.

whose the troll?

I have thought about that also. But silver is only slightly more conductive than copper. It will make an improvement, but it probably will not outweigh the added cost.

What's about Carbon. EDIT: I meant instead of SILICON based transistors.

Regards.

Hope someone actually answers .

What's about my last post .

Regards.

Additionally platinum by it self does not conduct electricity all that well. Here is a list of elements and their conductivities.

http://environmentalchemistry.com/ [...] rical.html

Also I wanted to say that the distances and the interconnects to each transistor is not the only factor slowing us down and creating heat. I kind of made it sound that way. But transistors also create heat when switching and can be much more efficient when using different materials such as when we switched to High-k dielectrics.

This time I actually did go back and research some of the things I posted last night. The transistor that Intel made uses different materials from the ones we currently use. I want to correct myself and say that a single transistor that is in your processor cannot operate at 1THz, however it will still operate at a much higher speed by itself. The University of Illinois also made a 604GHZ transistor but again with different materials. If we can find a way to use these transistors along with different interconnects we could get very fast cpu's using electrons yet.

Also I do not know much about how carbon can be used as a replacement over silicon. Hopefully someone else does.

I'll see what i can Find.

Regards.