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Intel Shrinks Transistor Size By 30%

Posted by Hemos on from the how-long-until-market dept.

pinkUZI writes "Intel will announce that it has crammed 500 million transistors on to a single memory chip, shrinking them in size by 30%. " The tech details are sadly lacking in the article - but I'm sure those will follow. Indeed, the Yahoo piece gives the details that "...has created a fully functional 70 megabit memory chip with transistor switches measuring just 35 nanometers."

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  1. In related news... by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news, Intel stated that this new manufacturing process will help their processors more effectively compete with charcoal on a heat density versus cost basis.

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    1. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      dorks.

  2. Don't worry.... by harumscarum · · Score: 5, Funny

    it is not the size of the chip she cares about....it is the number of transistors you have.

  3. Moore's Law by MikeMacK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, Moore is less - or smaller you could say.

  4. It's obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they've found a way to get rid of the base, collector, or emitter. Unfortunately, these new transistors can only store zeros.

  5. Now are we going to start getting spam... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...selling methods for reducing the size of our transistors?

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  6. missing word by mondoterrifico · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The tech details are sadly lacking in the article - but I'm those will follow."
    At least that is one way to reduce typos by slashdot editors, just start leaving out entire words. :P

    1. Re:missing word by gclef · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nono, he's actually making a grand, religious statement: I am, those will follow. Meaning, I exist, I have memory, all other memory is simply following after me. Hemos has actually obtained enlightenment, and is trying to show us the way through RAM.

  7. Re:Heat by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some people can't afford to have gas/electric heat and a PC in their home.

    Intel is hoping to win the home heating business, is all.

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  8. Re:One in a million chance by zymurgyboy · · Score: 5, Funny
    With the heat this thing will kick off, I might hack my Weber to use a P4 instead of gas. Hell it might even be able to be made to support the necessary logic to turn the grill off and plate my steak when its done.

    That's some progress!

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  9. Official Press Release? by tjhayes · · Score: 5, Funny

    This can't be any official sort of press release...nowhere do they measure the size of the transistors by how many it takes to equal the width of a human hair!

  10. The -gate suffix in popular news by tepples · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could just say "Clock gating".

    What makes a non-technical journalist think "Clockgate" isn't just another White House scandal like Watergate, Flowergate, Whitewatergate, Cattlegate, Travelgate, Filegate, and Zippergate?

  11. "Will announce" by BHearsum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did they announce it? Or is Miss Cleo now employed by /.?

  12. Mixed signals by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    First a story on /. about better lubricated, faster hard drives. Then another story about shinking chips. Is Cmdr Taco trying to give me a complex?

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  13. Re:Half way there. by onion2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    What they don't tell you is that the chip is 4 feet square.

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