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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.

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  1. 3D Memory Chips! by Brazilian+Geek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And this is intresting too - "Rambus founder's Matrix unveils first 3D memory chip" (The Register), intresting stuff, it kinda reminds me of Orson Scott Card's multidimensional memory in "Children of the Mind".

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  2. Pornography is good for you. by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Take a look, jerk off, and you'll feel a lot better afterwards.

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