RJT> I can't imagine it'd be easy to make *anything* that runs at those
 RJT> speeds!  This is RF,  and fairly high frequency RF at that!
 PS> Yep, puts a lot of additional burden on chip design because
 PS> at such speeds, you have to be careful that stuff like the
 PS> different bits on a memory bus interface have very similar
 PS> ways to travel, otherwise you're going to have all kinds of
 PS> interference and different bits arriving at different times.

On the back of most Pentium motherboards you can find traces
that just switch back and forth, doing nothing but getting longer.
Most people dont realize the speed of EM propagation in copper
wire is, depending, about 1/3 LESS than 3x10^8m/s.  That's for
free space in a vacuum, a number more applicable to astronomical
calculations.

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