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Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors)

Posted by timothy on from the never-trust-a-schedule-over-30-days-out dept.

NevDull writes: "CNN is reporting that Intel has announced new semiconductor packaging which will lead to CPUs with a billion transistors running at 20GHz within 6 years. Yummy!" The advance here is removing the balls of solder between the chip's packaging and the microprocessor core, which leaves room for more transistors (or a thinner package). Like it says, though, this is years away from your pocket Cray.

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  1. 1 billion transistors by primal39 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great! now we'll be able to process Seti packets even more efficiently!

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    Eschew Obfuscation
  2. 20ghz worth of speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and I still can't win in Solitaire!