Hi,

Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question but my understanding is that the
smaller you can make the devices the faster potentially they can perform.
However there is a limit. Considering the speed of processors in PC's has
increased from 100MHz or so to 3GHz, what is the fastest speed that will be
attainable?

Im pretty sure it will be stopping at 3.8ghz for a single processor,
and from then on it will nbecome dual core.. and so on. Until new
technology allows the processors to cool better, that is how it will
most likely work. Once cooling is solved, I dont think there will be a
limit. Also, dont forget, its not all the processor that determines
how fast the pc will actually run, it all bottlenecks down based on
the harddrive and ram speeds.

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The highest attainable speed on a single CPU I have seen in a desktop PC is
around the 6Ghz mark, it was a liquid nitrogen cool Intel Pentium. Companies
are putting dual cores on one CPU now to reduce production costs in
designing new more durable to heat CPU's, until this new technology comes
along which may be better conductivity and heat resistant materials the
corners will be cut by plonking two cores on one chip, the performance is
good put still not a patch on single core 'faster' chips.