Compare these characteristics with those of a wire that carries signals on a microchip. Currently these are 45 nanometres wide, propagate signals at 300 million metres per second …
Do signals on a microchip really travel at nearly the speed of light? I’d had the impression it was about half that, and some googling and looking at Wikipedia found that it varies a lot in big wires like network cable, but I didn’t find anything definitive about signal speed on microchips.
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Do signals on a microchip really travel at nearly the speed of light? I’d had the impression it was about half that, and some googling and looking at Wikipedia found that it varies a lot in big wires like network cable, but I didn’t find anything definitive about signal speed on microchips.
Should be ‘weighs’