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Researchers Create 3-Dimensional Chips

Posted by timothy on from the hypercubic dept.

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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  1. Hey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  2. I'm Waiting for a 4-D Chip by DanielMarkham · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:I'm Waiting for a 4-D Chip by RobertKozak · · Score: 5, Funny


      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

      --
      Bet this .sig looks familiar.
  3. 3d chips? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Already been done.

  4. Not just three dimensions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.