Intel's 3D Transistors One Step Closer to Reality

An anonymous reader writes "Reducing power consumption is the name of the game in today's semiconductors and Intel today described its tri-gate transistor technology as one of the key technologies that could free the company from the trap of thinner gate insulators and increasing current leakage. Tri-gate (three gates instead of only one) could reduce the power consumption of transistors by 35% right now and drops off-voltage - one of the main sources of current leakage - by 50%. These results are the good news. The bad news is that tri-gate won't be available until 2009."

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Re:Be the electricity

[Joebert]

Yes & Slashdot has a Games section does it not ?
Slashdot also has a Funny rating does it not ?

If you'ld ever played Super Mario Bros., you'ld know that a warp zone has 3 pipes in it.
Kinda like a 3 pathed transistor if you were to be the electricity huh ?

BTW, thoose are rhetorical questions, no reply needed, so a flamebait modifier is also not needed.