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Strained Silicon to Perpetuate Moore's Law
An anonymous reader noted a story floating around about a new technology known as strained silicon (or maybe 'Stained' since the article calls it both ;) which AMD & IBM figure will make CPUs 24% faster. A little bit on how it works as well, but not much substance.
If you overclock any CPU by 24% it'll be strained.
Or charred
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
Reports are the strained silicon technology works by collecting the mammary secretions of exhausted porn stars...
There has to be an implant joke in here someplace...
//Yes, I know silicon != silicone.
It Really really makes me sad, to see CmdrTaco making a jab at someone elses spelling error...
What AMD & IBM and all other manufacturers failed to realize is that to generate sales, you don't have to make CPUs 24% faster, but to make CPUs in pretty colors and different shapes. A processor with flashing neons while playing a cute little tune would become the next big thing. Add to this the ability to play games and watch videos directly on the processor and you are on your way to richness.
It's distressed denim for all my CPU's. Or is it strained carrots? Whirled peas? Dangit!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Don't spoil my dreams of a G5 PowerBook using this with a slower clock speed to bring it up to the current desktop G5's speed damn it! :)
1. Note that strained silicon is already in use.
2. Extra nerd points for quoting what Moore's law *really* states!
3. [...] No profit for you!
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
24% does not perpetuate moores law.
Moore's Law [wikipedia.org] has nothing to do with clock speed.
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Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
To use an analogy. A car today with one engine will have two engines in 18 months and four in 36 months.
CmdrTaco is pointing out someone else's spelling error. The end is near.
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
So I bought my car five years ago with 81kW (113 HP), and I could have bought a similar car for the same price with an 162kW engine 42 month ago, and half a year ago I should have been able to get a 32-piston-648kW (904 HP) car for the same money?
This only shows that anonymous readers, that apperently do not even know how a transistor looks like, should not be allowed to post articles about Si or CMOS technology on /.
I guess I have to say now: oh wait, this is /. to get moderated funny?
Visualize whirled peas!