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Strained Silicon Chips From Intel

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. WARNING: DON'T CLICK .SIG LINK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    some tubgirl mirror is there.

  2. Re:Finally Caught On by bethane · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    DETAILS HAVE EMERGED of the future design of Intel's Tejas/Pentium V processor, and of how the chip firm will present it to the world.

    The chip will sample internally at Intel in January 2004 and will take between four to six months to get to market. The Pentium 6 will follow a very similar schedule.

    The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design.

    The processor we believe, sits in the LGA 775 pin socket, and above it is a very thin heatsink. But, according to sources close to the firm's plans, another permeable heatsink can sit between this and another microprocessor module, giving a stackable design.

    The final design of this arrangement is not set in stone.

    According to this source, and the details have not been confirmed, a module sitting on top could provide 64-bit extensions.

    And the source claimed, Microsoft is ready to launch a version of Windows called Elements with 64-bit extensions.

    The idea seems to be that people can buy a 32-bit module, and then add in the 64-bit processor.

    There are three samples of an arrangement of the Pentium V here in Taiwan this week, with a very thin processor and lots of wires and patches stuck on it, just to show proof of concept.

    The Pentium V could have a front side bus speed of as much as 4000MHz, the source claimed, although this may be reserved for the next chip along, the Nehalem.

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  3. Re:Since when is Strained Silicon Secret? by urmensch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OT - Which book is your sig from?

  4. Angry Troll Post - More Nukes for US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fucking Americans. Stomping the rest of the world for pursuing nuclear technology, meanwhile you're increasing your own arsenal. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=20 26&ncid=2026&e=1&u=/latimes_ts/20031223/ts_latimes /observersfaultusforpursuingmininukes

    1. Re:Angry Troll Post - More Nukes for US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Even though I'm an american, I support your angry troll post. Mini-nukes and 'pre-emptive defense'...Bush and his neo-cons are going to ruin the world.

  5. Re:Finally Caught On by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hadn't seen it, but guessing it was gnaa related, I fired up IE and pasted it in just for fun. When it finally loaded on my 56k, (which was funny in and of itself,) and it started blaring, I got quite a laugh. Then I killed IE, and everything went back to normal. Still a good bit of fun for a tuesday night.