How generous, i can Install RA3 a whole Five Times! Wow! Just, like, i'm in awe man!
EA - You've just lost another customer. I was going to buy RA, not now though.
Idiots.
What you probably meant is every new Geometry needs a new Fab, and even that is not true.
The geometry problem is a Litography problem. As the channel length decreases you need a smaller wavelength in order to resolve it on the stepper.
So we have deep UV Litho, and phase masked Litho, and even xray Litho. Every time someone predicts Moores law is going to fail someone comes up with a new way of patterning at that geometry.
Anyway, as the guy from HP in an earlier post pointed out, this is a research project, and not a working Engineering Model. Even if HP get this working the Overheads of converting all current chips to this are going to be enormous. Silicon is here for quite a few decades yet.
Ok, this isn't related to the American Elections, but it is answering the question.
I'm British, and i moved to Europe 2 years ago to escape the shit hole that is the UK these days.
What did i leave behind? Lets think.....
1. Looking over my shoulder on a night out afraid that someone is going to knife / mug me. 2. Rising Insurance costs because the UK is importing more and more American style legislation. 3. Gorge Bush's lap dog. 4. Increasing Invasion of Privacy through new laws, again based on the American system, and taken up because Tony Blair sucks Dubyas cock. 5. Low wages because all Labour care about are the home counties and couldn't give a fuck about the rest of the UK. 6. A failing health system because both political parties like to play political football with it instead of investing cash. 7. Failing education because Labour think it's more important that kids know how to set up a playstation properly than read, write, and spell. 8. Shit Weather 9. Shit Weather. 10. Crap Food 11. The National Front - Facist bastards who think a knife to the gut solves most problems. 12. British Transport policy - Summed up by John '2 jags' Prescott, who told everyone they should use public transport more, whilst cruising around in his 2 jags. 13. A shit rail network, that falls over when leaves land on the tracks. 14. No manufacturing sector because Blair made the UK unattractive to investors - well, not to investors who want to employ low paid slave labour. 15. No job prospects for High Tech people. 16. Butt ugly Architecture - unless you think 1960's concrete tower blocks are attractive?
I was lucky. I got laid off by a greedly, self serving, profitering Canadian Company, but managed to find a job abroad. Now i have...
1. Nice weather. 2. Sensible Liberal Government 3. Good Food 4. People who respect each other. 5. Nice beer. 6. Attractive women (Not that UK women are that ugly, but the phrase 'she fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down' was coined in the uk i think). 7. Stable employment. 8. A joined up transport policy that works. 9. Proper health system. 10. Beautiful cities.
Ok, so i have to learn a new language, but it really isn't that hard.
I've visted America once, San Francisco, and i found nearly all the Americans i met to be ignorant, brash, loud, and above all FAT. I have American friends here, and they are all nice people and think Dubya is an ignorant prick.
My conclusion? FAT, ignorant, brash, loud Americans voted for Bush. The intelligent ones voted for Kerry, or have left the country already.
OK. He's won the title - can we please ignore him and move on please?!
Honestly, i'd never heard of Jeff Merkey until he popped up on Groklaw. But now it's like watching a car crash.
From the LKLM postings, and bizare behaviour, to the is it / isn't it Jeff Merkey posting as anon on Groklaw, to the judges comments when Novell sued him, and now threatening some small posting group for daring to have a thread with his name in it.
This guy wins the title for worlds best Troll.
Personally, I think Mr Merkey is in need of help. He hides behind his race, makes threats when ever someone posts something he doesn't like, and is only after attention.
The best thing to do is ignore him. He deserves our pity, not our attention.
So you answered you own question then. The alternative is the Lib Dems?
And i hadn't forgotten about 14% interest rates, unemployment, or the Tories. I was just pointing out that Tony Blair cannot be trusted anymore now that GW has his hand up Blairs ass working the mouth.
And no, i won't be voting Tory. Actually i won't be voting for anyone 'cause i don't live in the UK anymore, and unlike the American system that makes me ineligible to vote.
So what are manufactures using these days then, if not CMOS?
As a semiconductor engineer i can tell you that the current standard for most companies is CMOS, and BIPOLAR - the latter being used mainly for RF circuits. The current geometery standard is 0.35um,.
Smaller geometries are being handled by the larger IC manufacturers such as TSMC who can go down to 0.09um (90nm) at present for gate widths.
Yes, heat dissipation is large for modern processor, but that's why you've got half a pound of iron bolted to the thing. Heat dissipation is produced when a gate switches, since it's a capacitive junction, so there is no current flow when the gate is off, hence heat dissipation rises with clock speed.
As for Nanotech - I'd expect the bigger boys, INTEL, AMD, TSMC, etc to pick this up first, since they have the cash for the initial deployment. It'll be a long time (10 years?) before smaller companies see this. The manufacturing risks and investment required are just to great for smaller companies to take on at present.
Personally i'm looking forward to it, 'cause it means i can buy lots of nice high tech kit to play with:)
I love it. The first page says 'Welcome Slashdot users!', and if you try and download the file you get :
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
I see no problem with using M$ to refer to Microsoft.
Yes, i see your point about a mark of respect, but... well, that's just it, respect. If there was anything to respect then i would put Microsoft instead of M$.
Any company that makes an 86% Profit on a Product deserves to have the $ sign after it's name.
Yes, he was knighted, but, since he's not a British Citizen he *cannot* use the title "Sir".
I don't know how this affects things in the US? Very little i suspect since American Politics seems to be so corrupt and debased these days that Billy would be able to buy his way around any obsticle.
Personally i was sickened when he got his Knighthood. This man has done more to stifle competition and innovation than any other person in history yet we Brits award him by giving him a knighthood. I want to puke!
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How generous, i can Install RA3 a whole Five Times! Wow! Just, like, i'm in awe man! EA - You've just lost another customer. I was going to buy RA, not now though. Idiots.
What you probably meant is every new Geometry needs a new Fab, and even that is not true.
The geometry problem is a Litography problem. As the channel length decreases you need a smaller wavelength in order to resolve it on the stepper.
So we have deep UV Litho, and phase masked Litho, and even xray Litho. Every time someone predicts Moores law is going to fail someone comes up with a new way of patterning at that geometry.
Intel has a nice paper here.
Anyway, as the guy from HP in an earlier post pointed out, this is a research project, and not a working Engineering Model. Even if HP get this working the Overheads of converting all current chips to this are going to be enormous. Silicon is here for quite a few decades yet.
BlindShep
Ok, this isn't related to the American Elections, but it is answering the question.
...
I'm British, and i moved to Europe 2 years ago to escape the shit hole that is the UK these days.
What did i leave behind? Lets think.....
1. Looking over my shoulder on a night out afraid that someone is going to knife / mug me.
2. Rising Insurance costs because the UK is importing more and more American style legislation.
3. Gorge Bush's lap dog.
4. Increasing Invasion of Privacy through new laws, again based on the American system, and taken up because Tony Blair sucks Dubyas cock.
5. Low wages because all Labour care about are the home counties and couldn't give a fuck about the rest of the UK.
6. A failing health system because both political parties like to play political football with it instead of investing cash.
7. Failing education because Labour think it's more important that kids know how to set up a playstation properly than read, write, and spell.
8. Shit Weather
9. Shit Weather.
10. Crap Food
11. The National Front - Facist bastards who think a knife to the gut solves most problems.
12. British Transport policy - Summed up by John '2 jags' Prescott, who told everyone they should use public transport more, whilst cruising around in his 2 jags.
13. A shit rail network, that falls over when leaves land on the tracks.
14. No manufacturing sector because Blair made the UK unattractive to investors - well, not to investors who want to employ low paid slave labour.
15. No job prospects for High Tech people.
16. Butt ugly Architecture - unless you think 1960's concrete tower blocks are attractive?
I was lucky. I got laid off by a greedly, self serving, profitering Canadian Company, but managed to find a job abroad. Now i have
1. Nice weather.
2. Sensible Liberal Government
3. Good Food
4. People who respect each other.
5. Nice beer.
6. Attractive women (Not that UK women are that ugly, but the phrase 'she fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down' was coined in the uk i think).
7. Stable employment.
8. A joined up transport policy that works.
9. Proper health system.
10. Beautiful cities.
Ok, so i have to learn a new language, but it really isn't that hard.
I've visted America once, San Francisco, and i found nearly all the Americans i met to be ignorant, brash, loud, and above all FAT. I have American friends here, and they are all nice people and think Dubya is an ignorant prick.
My conclusion? FAT, ignorant, brash, loud Americans voted for Bush. The intelligent ones voted for Kerry, or have left the country already.
Honestly, i'd never heard of Jeff Merkey until he popped up on Groklaw. But now it's like watching a car crash.
From the LKLM postings, and bizare behaviour, to the is it / isn't it Jeff Merkey posting as anon on Groklaw, to the judges comments when Novell sued him, and now threatening some small posting group for daring to have a thread with his name in it.
This guy wins the title for worlds best Troll.
Personally, I think Mr Merkey is in need of help. He hides behind his race, makes threats when ever someone posts something he doesn't like, and is only after attention.
The best thing to do is ignore him. He deserves our pity, not our attention.
So you answered you own question then. The alternative is the Lib Dems?
And i hadn't forgotten about 14% interest rates, unemployment, or the Tories. I was just pointing out that Tony Blair cannot be trusted anymore now that GW has his hand up Blairs ass working the mouth.
And no, i won't be voting Tory. Actually i won't be voting for anyone 'cause i don't live in the UK anymore, and unlike the American system that makes me ineligible to vote.
As a semiconductor engineer i can tell you that the current standard for most companies is CMOS, and BIPOLAR - the latter being used mainly for RF circuits. The current geometery standard is 0.35um,.
Smaller geometries are being handled by the larger IC manufacturers such as TSMC who can go down to 0.09um (90nm) at present for gate widths.
Yes, heat dissipation is large for modern processor, but that's why you've got half a pound of iron bolted to the thing. Heat dissipation is produced when a gate switches, since it's a capacitive junction, so there is no current flow when the gate is off, hence heat dissipation rises with clock speed.
As for Nanotech - I'd expect the bigger boys, INTEL, AMD, TSMC, etc to pick this up first, since they have the cash for the initial deployment. It'll be a long time (10 years?) before smaller companies see this. The manufacturing risks and investment required are just to great for smaller companies to take on at present.
Personally i'm looking forward to it, 'cause it means i can buy lots of nice high tech kit to play with :)
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
Better lay off the downloads for a while guys.
Yes, i see your point about a mark of respect, but... well, that's just it, respect. If there was anything to respect then i would put Microsoft instead of M$.
Any company that makes an 86% Profit on a Product deserves to have the $ sign after it's name.
86%! FFS. No wonder people are moving to FOSS.
I don't know how this affects things in the US? Very little i suspect since American Politics seems to be so corrupt and debased these days that Billy would be able to buy his way around any obsticle.
Personally i was sickened when he got his Knighthood. This man has done more to stifle competition and innovation than any other person in history yet we Brits award him by giving him a knighthood. I want to puke!