Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips

Spy der Mann writes "Professor James Lu and other researchers of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, managed to create three-dimensional chips (coral cache) to optimize the design of future processors and prevent overheating. "Make the interconnect wire shorter, and you cut the delay time," says Lu. "A simple way to make them shorter is to stack the transistors.""

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flavor ridges

[cheesebikini]

Flat chips suck. These chips have flavor ridges(tm).

Hey...

[Anonymous Coward]

We complain about all the /. stories that are dupes but don't give proper credit to the editors when a non-dupe makes it past their radar. Propz to Timothy for posting an original article! Keep up the good work!

I'm Waiting for a 4-D Chip

[DanielMarkham]

Want to write a time travel game. Or maybe I already did.

Re:I'm Waiting for a 4-D Chip

[RobertKozak]

Want to write a time travel game. Or maybe I already did.

I did that already. QA gave me a list of bugs before I even started so I decided to not go ahead with it since it seemed like too much work.

-- Robert

3d chips?

[Anonymous Coward]

Already been done.

The age of Terminator has Begun

[Nuclear Elephant]

Quick, someone send themselves back in time to blow this guy up.

Not just three dimensions

[Anonymous Coward]

I read in a paper recently where scientists have had some success in developing a four-dimensional transistor by using nanotubes to set up a quantum Klein bottle wherein the current passes through Bohr space and thus runs parahybolically.

In practice, you should actually be able to use this method to set up any n-dimensional transistor, provided you can find a sufficiently clean source of power. Modern power supplies have heretofore been plagued by an excess of static dissonance.

Re:Not just three dimensions

[Alsee]

You can compensate for that static dissonace by rotating the power harmonics.

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Already been done.

[Anonymous Coward]

Frito Lay developed the 3d chip a long time ago: Doritos 3D

Re:Already been done.

[Anonymous Coward]

(from The Onion)

2-D Doritos Sales Lagging
DALLAS--In the wake of the launch of "Doritos 3-Ds," Frito-Lay is experiencing a sharp decrease in sales of its original two-dimensional Doritos. "The public has gone wild for our revolutionary three-dimensional chips, which, in addition to the usual length and width, also possess depth," Frito-Lay spokesman Isaac Toomer said. "So wild, in fact, they have lost interest in traditional monoplanar snack chips." Toomer said Frito-Lay is now developing a highly theoretical "Funyuns 4-D." "One day, people everywhere will enjoy crispy, extratemporal Funyuns that intersect with an infinite number of parallel universes," Toomer said. "It will be a whole new world of non-Euclidean snacking."

This is old news...

[paul248]

Been there, done that.

Hexahedral ICs

[mbstone]

In other news, Intel engineers have developed a new dual-core motherboard featuring twin hexahedral processors and a new socket design.

"We've gone beyond zero insertion force -- you just throw the cubes into the enclosure and they will connect," said an Intel spokesman.

According to the spokesman, the functionality of the system will depend on the orientation of the chips as they land in their respective sockets. If the chips land on 7 or 11, Windows will run; 2, 3, or 12 produces the Blue Screen of Death. Similarly, any other number will produce an exception unless it is thrown again before a 7.

Re:Hexahedral ICs

[Alsee]

In other words this is a crap design?

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[A Dafa Disciple]

Sorry, but 3D chips have already been done.

The Star Trek solution

[some guy I know]

localize the electron wavefunctions [...] conduction bands [...] delocalise in Momentum space [...] Shannon entropy [...] entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilenger states

Why not just reverse the polarity of the Heisenberg compensators and realign the plasma relays so that the main deflector dish emits a phased tachyon burst of Crayola radiation?
Problem solved!