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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. dewt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post?

  2. That's nice... by cornjchob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but until they name their procs with undeceptive names, I'll still wonder what's going on there.

    --
    We now have confirmed reports from an informed Orange County minister that Ethel is still an active communist.
  3. AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pretty soon amd will be making little plastic jesii that sit on your dashboard and say "OOOOOH LOOK AT THE RACOOOONS" hehehehe

    that's assuming that you live in a locality that has racoons

  4. related article by subspacemsg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In a similar story M$ puts billion bugs per OS

  5. Please, no Britishisms on 9/11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I know that the Brits have a habit of pluralizing collective nouns (i.e., "AMD are working on their...") but frankly, it sounds completely inane. AMD is a company. It is only one company. It is to be used in the singular form, such as "AMD is working on its..." Furthermore, I don't see why Slashdot allows something foreign like that to get posted on 9/11, of all days.

    No offense, but I would appreciate it if you Brits could keep your little grammatical peccadillos to yourself for just one day. On the anniversary for the Canary Wharf bombing, you can post whatever you want. Today, we'd just like a little bit of respect.

    1. Re:Please, no Britishisms on 9/11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      On behalf of the British people, I apolgise that our language is disrepectful to Americans - we'll change it right away.

    2. Re:Please, no Britishisms on 9/11 by Karamchand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      ah come one, yea? Could you Americans be at least one day in the year not be such suckers? Don't be ridiculous... the BRITS are the ones who "invented" english so they can speak (write) whatever they want.

  6. Re:I don't understand... by volsung · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Grammar Nazi sez: The comma means that the clause which follows it is a descriptive clause. It is there to describe the item preceding it, not to distinguish it from other items.

  7. logout now says bugtraq by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey,

    I noticed that Slashdot has a nasty bug, which, I imagine is a fault of
    Slashcode. On certain occassions, you can find a very interesting Referer
    string for some visitiors of pages mentioned on this site. One of such
    entries:

    63.XXX.XXX.175 - - [11/Sep/2002:18:13:33 +0200] "GET /newtcp/ HTTP/1.1"
    200 33541 "http://slashdot.org/?unickname=dXXg&passwd=rXXXX3 "
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826"
    [lcamtuf.coredump.cx]

    Go figure. This does not seem to be a consistent pattern, of thousands
    hits from Slashdot only about 15-20 were like that today, so it seems like
    a specific condition have to be met, yet it's not that uncommon - I'd
    guess it happens right after you login and click on the link. I did not
    investigate it too much, but it seems to me that Slashcode is fairly
    popular and used in quite a few places - and that's a nice example of why
    GET shouldn't be used for forms. This is based exclusively on the real
    world observation of this pattern.

    I gave Slashdot a short notice because it does not really matter how fast
    you patch it - once public, people can grep their webserver logs for past
    entries anyway.

    --
    Michal Zalewski

  8. Re:I'm confused - gay karma whore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And were OFF!

    The mental midget comes flying out of the pink corner with a gay attempt at a full-ass-nelson!

    Combatant for justice quickly dodges Raul's homo attack.

    Raul, liking the fact his pink wrestling bikini is now wedged up his ass, reckons he can beat the superior fighter against retardation on /.

    Raul, prances around the ring like a light-on-your-feet homosexual, trying to elicit some response from the crown. A deluge of eggs and tomatoes quickly make this gay snark realize he needs to reach down in his belly, past the pond of cum his gay lover just squirted in his mouth, and reach down deep for the strength to beat the FREEDOM from moronacy on /.!

    He does a flying butt-plug drop kick, and FREEDOM from moronacy on /. puts the smack down, he breaks a chair over his head, and beats the gay Raul within an inch of his life.

    Of course, this being ./, the news reports Raul won, and marks any and all reports that are true, reporting FREEDOM from moronacy on /. WON, are squelched - marked as troll, or flame bait. (More like flamer bait)

    Raul still feels good. He is battered, and bruised. But he gets to go home to daddy. And all his gay friends tell him he is a superstar, and that was just wonderful.

    But Raul, the rest of the world KNOWS you are a fag, and you can pretend its normal, but its not. You are a mental midget, cum-licking asshole rimmer.