By the year 2012 Intel plans to have the ability to integrate one billion transistors into a chip which will run at a speed of ten gigahertz. ... This means that either consumers of these microprocessors will have to be content with a speed of ten gigahertz, or a new method for making chips will have to be developed. ... As the clock speed and system size increase in synchronous circuit systems, the portion of the system's power budget dedicated to distributing the clock increases dramatically. ... The high speed clock switching all over the chip simultaneously is the largest source of...

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Revolutions per minute and speed are provided by servo controller while status information and feedback are provided by generators and sensors. ... Research has been pushing the limits of dual information system (Boolean algebra). ... Since the first commercial products of theoretical research in cybernetics were produced in this field, robotics goes beyond the limits of the entertainment industry in the field of the toy industry. ...

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