Re:Intel introduces 3-GHz desktop chip (2002)
by pjscott on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:09AM
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In one clock cycle, light would be able to travel about 780 micrometers. The real propagation speed of signals on a chip will be substantially less than the speed of light, and it gets slower at smaller feature sizes. This could be tricky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnect_bottleneck