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Intel's 3D Transistors One Step Closer to Reality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the closing-your-leaks dept.

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."

6 of 69 comments (clear)

  1. Intel cooler than AMD! by DaMouse404 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel.. now 3 times cooler than AMD!

    -DaMouse

    1. Re:Intel cooler than AMD! by j79zlr · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought the OP asked "lately"?

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  2. History repeats, again by overshoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    How 'bout that. Intel has invented the pentode.

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  3. Be the electricity by Joebert · · Score: 2, Funny

    I feel like I'm playing Super Mario Brothers, & I just found a warp zone.

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    1. Re:Be the electricity by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 2, Funny
      You're too intelligent for this crowd. Go use your skills to get laid.

      Seriously.

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  4. Perfect timing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    The bad news is that tri-gate won't be available until 2009.
    Just in time for Vista! (rimshot)