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AMD Makes 10-Nanometer Transistor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the billionathlon dept.

Yorrike writes: "Reuters is reporting that AMD are about to reveal their smallest double-gate transistor to date. From the article: 'The gate of the transistor, across which electrical current flows to turn the switch on, measures 10 nanometers, or 10 billionths of a meter.' The article goes on to suggest that this may lead to a 1 billion transistor chip."

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  1. I'm confused by Syncdata · · Score: 2, Funny

    But how many of these transistors would fit on a single human hair?

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  2. Dr. Evil's CPU... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dr. Evil: "And I will design a chip with transistors... 1 MILLION transistors!"

    #2: "Uh, Dr. Evil, we've already designed a chip with 1 million transistors, quite a few years ago in fact."

    Dr. Evil: "How many is a lot then?"

    #2: "1 billion would be very impressive. We're working on that right now."

    Dr. Evil: "Alright then... 1 BILLION transistors."

  3. no more mhz benchmark? by chris_mahan · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, where's not going to benchmark on Mhz cycles anymore?

    I can already picture this:

    "Buy Intel's new Pentra Plus 2004, the only processor with a billion transistors!!!" (yay, men in blue dance yadda yadda)

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  4. It's amazing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    every year I can process my pr0n faster and faster.

  5. Room to spare! by rot26 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just think about all the DRM they can pack into that baby!

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  6. If sold in "Everything Scottish".... by echucker · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... this would be the "wee" size. "Not so wee" and "friggin' huge!" are now obsolete.

  7. Heat Sink? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Imagine the size of the heatsink you'd need for a chip with 1 billion transistors.

  8. So many more transistors all on one chip... by The+Fanta+Menace · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and with the new DRM capabilities, it'll be able to do so much less.

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  9. Shhhhhh! Don't tell the RIAA! by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 3, Funny


    Once the RIAA gets news of this I'm sure they'll find some hack think-tank that will make the proclamation that according to their data, there is a direct correlation over time between "Transistors Per CPU" and "Music Piracy". Lawyer parties will follow.



    (When I started typing this, I was making a joke. But now that I've read it back a few times, this looks more probable than improbable.)

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