is this true, or total rubbish?

a freind of mine said, that in a magazine called micromart, in january, a 5ghz AMD processor will be released, is this a load of rubbish?

i would of thought it was, seen as i thought they was planning on releasing some sort of 3.0ghz amd 64 :\

 

I highly doubt it.
That would defeat AMD's purpose of 'Performance over Speed'

 

No, its not true. Even with Intel's NetBurst architecture, which scales very well with clock speed they couldn't hit 4GHz. So AMD will take a more TLP approach.

Not anytime soon anyway.

 

Eventually, yeah, I think they'd hit that, but the fastest AMD CPU's are topping out below 3GHz for right now. A 2GHz jump any time soon is really hard to believe and nothing I've personally come across. I'm saying BS to that article.

 

I read in a UK magazine called "Gigahertz" that Intel is making a processor in which instead of electricity they would be using infra red rays (light) to pass information from one part to another.
As a matter of fact it said that intel has already made a prototype, a 1Ghz processor, based on this technology.

 

i heard on the mobile bbc internet once that some company is developing some sort of quantum thing, that can be used to move data, so the whole computer would have no wires, exept for power i suppose :\, and its somthing to do with transporting atoms aswell, longs way from star treck though

 

Those probably are pretty believable. I know that there's been some research done involving lasers to store data, although I'm not sure we'll see anything like that soon. There's also been talk for a few years---that I know of---about using atoms in storage. I'm not sure about the processors, but that could be a likely possibility. Quantum computing has been a subject for awhile, but I'm not sure if there's ever been one successfully built. I do know that it is a theory at the very least.