Wed 21.06.2006 11:35
500 GHz
WTF! IBM and Georiga Tech have demonstrated a 500 GHz Silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip, operating at 4.5 Kelvins. The chip was fabricated by IBM on 200mm wafers, and, at room temperature, the circuits operated at approximately 350 GHz. More info here.
Sun 18.06.2006 18:04
Resurrection of evil
I couldn't watch the match from world championship yesterday as czech team played poorly. So I decided to play some computer game ... and the only one I have installed on my brand new Ubuntu powered system was Doom3. I played with some borrowed hardware a long time ago and stopped it because of terrrible performance. But yesterday I lowered the resolution to 640x480, turned off the details and keep on playing even if I had something like 10fps many times.
I went through Delta Complex and Central processing to Site 3 and Caves and it was in-fucking-credible to play those dark tunnels, industrial sites and ancient caves. I finished the game ... but I heard something about strange signals coming from Mars :)