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Strained Silicon to Perpetuate Moore's Law

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-the-law-man dept.

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.

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  1. Get to the heart of it by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Redundant
    What it appears is that IBM has a better process for this than Intel because IBM has less changes to make otherwise than Intel's process (which leaves the Germanium behind) does. This is good for IBM and its partners.

    What is unclear is if this 24% speed improvement is solely due to this new process, or is part of several IBM technologies together.

    As a result, best to wait and learn some more before going out and selling all your Intel stock.

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. I, for one by claussenvenable · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our new stressed-out Si-based overlords.