Author: leonid
Date: 10:42:12 12/12/00
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On December 11, 2000 at 02:10:22, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >6000 to 12,000 Mhz processors? > > >SAN JOSE, Calif. (December 10, 2000 7:42 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - >The world's largest manufacturer of computer chips, Intel Corp., says it has >built the world's smallest and fastest transistor - a milestone that will allow >the company to build within the next five or 10 years microprocessors that will >be 10 times more powerful than the ones available today. Expected it was computer at least 100 times more powerful, to be new and exciting. But only 10 times... It sound as something close to nothing. Thanks anyway for mentioning this new chip! Will go to see what it is, after the address that you indicated. Probably you wrote inadvertently some wrong data. Leonid. >Intel officials plan to share details of the breakthrough Monday in San >Francisco at the International Electron Devices Meeting, a technical conference >for semiconductor engineers and scientists. > >Chips, which are the brains of computers, contain transistors that act like >switches controlling the flow of data. The smaller the transistors, the faster >the chips can perform. > >Today's fastest chip on the market, Intel's Pentium 4, squeezes 42 million >transistors onto a sliver of silicon. With the latest tiny transistors, future >chips could have 400 million or more transistors. The new transistors, Intel >said, are .03 microns wide, or about three atoms thick. A pile of 100,000 of >them would equal the thickness of a sheet of paper, the company said. > >"Semiconductors have been on this growth curve for a long time, and Intel has >validated that we'll be able to continue on this path," said Jim Handy, a chief >analyst with Dataquest. > >The future is exciting, > > >Tim Frohlick
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