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Reduce Transistor Power Consumption

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-i-rewired-it dept.

revelCyllufyalP writes to tell us that University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a way to reduce the overall power consumption of transistors. From the article: "In order to improve computer chips' performance, transistors' size and gate insulators have to be continuously shrunken so that more components can be packed into a single chip. Computer chip producers were hitting a wall in downscaling the transistors and gate insulators because of their inability to reduce the leakage current of the existing gate insulators. This new technique will help the chip producers to develop more powerful chips with low-power consumption."

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  1. Prior art? by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny
    University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a way to reduce the overall power consumption of transistors
    Wayyyy ahead of you.
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  2. Re:How do you reduce tunneling current? by saifatlast · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm no expert, but even I can see that you missed a step here. Here, I'll fix it for you.

    1. To lower gate leakage simply increase dielectric thickness.
    2. To make up for lost speed due to higher dielectric thickness, increase dielectric constant.
    3. ????
    4. Profit

    Hope that clears things up for everyone.
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  3. Terrible news for cooks by petantik+f00l · · Score: 3, Funny

    This news has made me very depressed.

    how can I now be a cook at the same time as programming?

    Before my Pentium 4 generated heat enough for frying eggs and I'm sure in a few years I would be looking for recipes suitable for heat generated by nuclear reactor( charcoal egg comes to mind) but now me dream is gone. Damn you University of Kentucky researchers. I hope we never meet