Strained Silicon Chips From Intel

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Strained Silicon Chips From Intel

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 23, 2003 @01:03PM from the try-ace-bandages dept.

Quirk writes "NewScientist is reporting... "Intel has taken the wraps off a secret technique it is using'Strained silicon' chips to increase the speed of its Pentium and Centrino chips. The technique boosts the rate at which transistors switch, without having to make them smaller.""

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Strained silicon?!!? by BWJones · 2003-12-23 13:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Shoot, I should tell you about strained silicon. That overclocking experiment I did a couple years ago went horribly wrong when the water pump failed and smoke started pouring out of the case. THAT was decidedly strained silicon. :-)

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Future bad headlines for this technology by Craig+Maloney · 2003-12-23 13:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Intel sees chip futures strained
Intel strains to find new chips
Intel strains to make chips faster

etc... ad nauseum.
1. Re:Future bad headlines for this technology by ozric99 · 2003-12-23 13:45 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  .... Apple introduces their fledgling product: iStrain.
2. Re:Future bad headlines for this technology by Walt+Dismal · 2003-12-23 19:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You're all too late. Safeway carries Beechnut Strained Silicon, and babies love it. What scares me is Gerber Creamed Silicon with Spinach.
Hmm.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-23 13:17 · Score: 3, Funny

Pulling on my processor with two pairs of pliers just bent a few of the pins and made it smoke a bit...
And the competitors by JanneM · 2003-12-23 13:55 · Score: 5, Funny

In a response, AMD announced development of "stressed silicon", while VIA reportedly has only managed to "get their silicon slightly worried", according to one unnamed source. China, meanwhile, announced a multi-million dollar project to have silicon going into hysterics within five years.

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Strained.... by vudu · 2003-12-23 14:00 · Score: 3, Funny

Silicone? I was expecting a story about Pamela Anderson.

Damn.
That's nothing by dus · 2003-12-23 14:09 · Score: 2, Funny

Microsoft has been stressing silicon, including Intel's, for many years!
World's Smallest by DumbSwede · 2003-12-23 16:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Sure strained silicon is great, but the real advance was the world's smallest colander.

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