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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[KingKire64]

Yet another chip advance that problably wount see the light of day. They seem to come up with all these neat innovations, but by the time the get to use them something better and cheaper has been devoloped. I want then to devolop stuff that will be groundbreaking for the chips of next year. Not next decade.