AMD, IBM Announce Transistor Advances

Jugalator writes: "AMD announces it has built a CMOS transistor with the highest switching speed in the semiconductor history. The transistors are manufactured with .015 micron technology and allows a twenty-fold increase in transistors per chip with a ten-fold increase in performance when compared to the transistors in use today. So far, AMD has only produced a prototype and a larger scale production is not planned for until 2009 at earliest. AMD will announce further information regarding their research in the semiconductor field at the 2001 International Electron Devices Meeting today, December 4." schongo sent in a note about IBM's double-gate transistor. This and the Intel announcement recently are all related to the International Electron Devices Meeting.

Comments

Re:cool

[faeryman]

which obviously i need, seeing as how i just got second post. stupid 400mhz! :(

Re:Agian

[Anonymous Coward]

What's wrong with you guys? Aren't you engineers?
Then come on! I want a spacecraft to reach Mars in 1 second, and I want it for tomorrow!
And please, don't give me that pathetic excuse about the fundamental limits and the speed of light and all of that bullshit, find some breakthrough and do it now, or you think I pay you for the neat innovations that will be useful in 15 years from now, if they ever get to be useful at all?

Faster

[Anonymous Coward]

This press report is overrated. I have created a car that can travel 10000 miles powered only by a bowl of salsa. The secret is an engine that is 4000 times faster than what is currently available, by using a technique called "warp drive." I expect to produce these vehicles in mass in 2061.

- Zephram

Re:Bah!

[rossy]

So, let me see.. I'm moving into my new house in 2010, called the power company, called the phone company, called the cable company (broadband), and the gas company... say gas company, can I have both hot and cold gases?