Just checked out http://www.analog.com/en/products/high-speed-logic/logic-devices/logic-gates.html
That have a range at 45 Gbps. This is good though I don't want to solder 1000's.
Any advice?
Thanks.
Why do you want such potentially huge speed ?
What exactly are you trying to achieve ?
The original Cray 1 supercomputer, is a good example, of perhaps the upper end of how fast a discrete component (limited to small scale logic ICs, ECL), computer might be able to run at.
But bear in mind it was designed by (probably) some of the best in the world computer experts, cost at the time $25,000,000 (much more in today's money) and needed a huge amount of electricity to power it. So much that it needed its own sub-power station.
All the above, gave it around 80 MHz clock speed (with each clock tick = 1 FLOP, with some rare exceptions, making it 2 rarely per clock cycle) (or 160 Million FLOPS peak, which did not apply for most tasks).
Whereas a $10 to $1,000 FPGA based cpu design can easily give you 100 MHz (maybe less) to 500 MHz MIPS (or FLOPS), and probably more than that. Depending on your budget and how competent you are at designing FPGA stuff.
I.e. discrete component cpu, is unlikely to exceed 100 MHz, for a complicated cpu.
But FPGAs can easily get to perhaps 500 MHz or more clock frequency, if the FPGA is of a fast enough type and your design is up to it.