Fin-Fet Transistors on the Horizon

MORTAR_COMBAT! writes "According to this 9 September News.com article, IBM scientists have "manufactured a working static RAM chip out of so-called Fin-Fet transistors, which feature two gates, rather than a single one, for conducting electricity". What does this mean for us? 50 percent performance increases, due to increased throughput of electricity, and 50 percent less power usage, due to decreased electrical leakage. Longer battery life for laptops, lower power bills for server farms. Moore's law lives on. More pretty pictures here."

Comments

Great...

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

DRM at twice the speed then.

I'm feeling sad. If the future (2-5 years) means PC's are gone and all we will have are X-Box type boxen on the desktop, I'll cry. Faster RAM? What for? I don't care if I have 100GHZ and a Petabyte of nanosecond ram all in my pocket. If it becomes against the law to get a BASH shell running, I'll cry. Don't laugh, we are almost there. Getting a prompt on a palladium box might just become illegal (trying to cirvumvent the boxen with C:\ are ya? Go to jail then!) For the first time in my 26 years on this planet, I UNDERSTAND why old men go, "When I was a boy" and "Back in my day." I'm saying that allready, then you had to earn a spot on the boards and respect the sysop. Back in my day...

Bobo fet is gay?

[geekoid]

oh fin-fet transistors, I thought for sure it said bobo fet transvestite.

of course, I'm the guy who spent a night trying to get laid in a warehouse....

rim-shot.