Intel Looks to Billion-Transistor Processors

Weedstock writes: "EE Times has an article about Intel's next decade roadmap. It explains what are the current issues with the actual "plastic bumped organic land grid array" packaging technology and how it will be modified into a "bumpless package with built-up layers" to accomodate billion-transistor processors."

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Re:Thank god for Intel

[prisoner-of-enigma]

Your post really demostrates that your are ignorant of what you're posting about.

AMD is not copying Intel's IP. If they were, Intel would be winning the suits against AMD, not losing them as they have been. AMD has reverse-engineered the x86 instruction set that has been around for quite some time, but implemented in silicon differently. The end result is greater performance, as evidenced by any benchmark you care to run. Like it or not, the fastest x86 processor on the planet right now, even according to Intel's own benchmark suite, is the Athlon XP 2000+.

And to further add insult to your injury, AMD doesn't stand for "American Micro Devices", it stands for Advanced Micro Devices. If you'd done the slightest bit of reading, researching, or thinking before you posted your previous comment, you'd know that.