CHollman82
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 Posted: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:54:03 Post Subject: |
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| Dr. EvilCheeze wrote: | | But we are talking several areas. Because the way a CPU works, and is made is significantly different than the way you would make memory (be is solid state or not). |
I'm not so sure about that, as far as I know there is not much of a difference between the way a processor works at its lowest level and the way memory works, its all about moving and storing data and there is only a handfull of ways to do that. A processor has registers and internal cache memory, but that is designed the same as normal system memory, using arrays of electrical circuits called "flip-flops". Everything else is just using arrays of transistors to create logic gates. If, instead of transistors and electrons, we were using photons (light quanta) manipulated by EM fields and vacuums, then the data could be moved and "processed" (much like transistors do in processors) orders of magnitude faster. |
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