Reduce Transistor Power Consumption

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."

Comments

Re:Where's the news?

[Jesus_666]

From what little info is in the press release, it doesn't sound like they're doing anything revolutionary, so I'm curious why they claim they can reduce gate leakage by so much.

Potty training?

Re:Woohoo

[SlashSquatch]

Maybe I missed something but all I found was an unsupported claim. Nothing on how they arrive at their results, nothing on what the results are, in short, nothing. A bunch of nurds speculating on an empty claim doesn't change that.