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Super-fast Transistors On the Way

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the life-in-the-fast-lane dept.

nbannerman writes "The BBC is reporting about a new kind of transistor, that recently set a world record of 110Ghz. From the article: 'To achieve the speed gain, researchers at the University of Southampton added fluorine to the silicon devices. The technique uses existing silicon manufacturing technology meaning it should be quick and easy to deploy.' The apparent applications for this process include mobile phones and digital cameras."

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  1. Faster? by Asm-Coder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe we should just get faster software.

    1. Re:Faster? by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's cheaper to pay a few top engineers to make faster hardware then to pay a mountain of top computer scientists to write stable, fast code. Corel learned that the hardway.

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    2. Re:Faster? by Carthag · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's the old "stable, fast, on schedule; pick two" -- the faster the chip is, the more likely you can concentrate on writing stable code on schedule and make up for the slowness with processor speed.

  2. Re:Mobile Phones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So my shiny new video-enabled phone will respond instantaneously to button-presses.

    Like my LCD-based phones from 10 years ago used to.