Intel, IBM unveil new chip technology

[Onkel Neal]

Oh boy, great news on the tech front!


Intel, IBM unveil new chip technology
Breakthrough, using new material, will allow processors to become smaller and more powerful.

January 27 2007: 8:51 AM EST


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -- Intel Corp. and IBM have announced one of the biggest advances in transistors in four decades, overcoming a frustrating obstacle by ensuring microchips can get even smaller and more powerful.
The breakthrough, achieved via separate research efforts and announced Friday, involves using an exotic new material to make transistors -- the tiny switches that are the building blocks of microchips.


http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/27/technology/bc.microchips.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes (http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/27/technology/bc.microchips.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes)

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[CptSimFreak]

Slightly O/T.

Why are they calling Moor’s linear prediction, a law? Sounds silly….General Relativity is a theory. But this is a law? LoL.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

[geetrue]

Researchers are optimistic the new technology can be used at least through two more technology generations out, when circuitry will be just 22 nanometers.


This quote was in the article, but what does it mean?

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Researchers are optimistic the new technology can be used at least through two more technology generations out, when circuitry will be just 22 nanometers.


This quote was in the article, but what does it mean?


I believe it means that eventually circuits will be around 22 nanometers in size. Which is something like a 10th of a milimeter. Wouldnt want to drop one ;)

[geetrue]

Okay, but what does (2) technology generations mean?

[Spoon 11th]

They are currently working with 45 nm tech. Two generations forward -> 32nm -> 22 nm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_nanometer

[Torpedo Fodder]

I believe it means that eventually circuits will be around 22 nanometers in size. Which is something like a 10th of a milimeter. Wouldnt want to drop one ;)

Err...22nm would be more like 1/50,000th of a millimeter.

[nikimcbee]

Slightly O/T.

Why are they calling Moor’s linear prediction, a law? Sounds silly….General Relativity is a theory. But this is a law? LoL.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

I say it is an intel ad gimick:doh:

[tycho102]

"Moore's Law" is a marketing law, similar to the "TandA Law". About every 18 months you would be able to sell completely new machines to companies like the new york times, time-warner, and halliburton.

[nikimcbee]

I got a chuckle out of this, so I had to bump it for Neal.:know:

[Skybird]

I got a chuckle out of this, so I had to bump it for Neal.:know:


Talking of hobbies lately. Now tell us about your... obsessions...!? :O:

[nikimcbee]

Talking of hobbies lately. Now tell us about your... obsessions...!? :O:
okay Dr freud:haha:, I like banana pudding. Bacon is good.

[Gerald]

okay Dr freud:haha:, I like banana pudding. Bacon is good. But Bacon,is for Frau, question carefully you may "borrow" a bit :timeout:

[Jimbuna]

okay Dr freud:haha:, I like banana pudding. Bacon is good.

Jason your really quite incorrigible :DL

[Pisces]

I don't get it. The article link is dead. This thread was as dead as can be. I can't imagine what made nikimcbee chuckle. What's the point of resurrecting this thread?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Who knows what goes on in McBee's mind?

Other than dogs, bacon and now banana pudding? And lolcats?

And, so rumour (or tee-shirt) goes, some SH3+GWX... :o

[Jimbuna]

He was diiging around in his backyard and instead of a bone he found this thread apparently:DL

[nikimcbee]

Who knows what goes on in McBee's mind?

Other than dogs, bacon and now banana pudding? And lolcats?

And, so rumour (or tee-shirt) goes, some SH3+GWX... :o

Lots of Tom and Jerry cartoons, a few episodes of the "A-Team", Reese
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.witherspoon, Barbara Eden (in the Jeannie outfit:D)...

[nikimcbee]

I don't get it. The article link is dead. This thread was as dead as can be. I can't imagine what made nikimcbee chuckle. What's the point of resurrecting this thread?

oh, I didn't know the link was dead.:dead: All the thing the article used to talk about, I work with at work (the "new" chip technology).;)

...and regarding Moore's Law, it basically goes like this: Every two years intel comes out with a new chip design, then the next two years they shrink that design, then you go back to step one(new design):o

There was a show about a big scandal in the semiconductor industry, where some dude was claimimg that he had come up with an organic semiconductor (non-Si based, which is the current building block for all computer chips). Well, in the show about that guy, they said; "if Moore's Law were to ever end the world would stagnate(sp?) and fall into economic chaos, and go into the dark ages again.:haha: Yes, they were serious.

[Pisces]

Ok, it's making slightly more sense. But it's ok, can't have everything.

Is this 'new' technology by any chance this 'Graphene' stuff you keep hearing about lately?

[FIREWALL]

I'll tell you what all this means... A new MoBo upgrade. :damn:

[nikimcbee]

Ok, it's making slightly more sense. But it's ok, can't have everything.

Is this 'new' technology by any chance this 'Graphene' stuff you keep hearing about lately?

I've never heard of that:

Graphene is an allotrope (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Allotrope) of carbon (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Carbon), whose structure is one-atom-thick planar (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Plane_(geometry)) sheets of sp2-bonded (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Sp2_bond) carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice.[1] (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/#cite_note-RiseGraphene-0) The term graphene was coined as a combination of graphite (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Graphite) and the suffix -ene (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/-ene) by Hanns-Peter Boehm (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Hanns-Peter_Boehm),[2] (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/#cite_note-1)[3] (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/#cite_note-2) who described single-layer carbon foils in 1962.[4] (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/#cite_note-Boehm1962-3) Graphene is most easily visualized as an atomic-scale chicken wire (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Chicken_wire_(chemistry)) made of carbon atoms and their bonds. The crystalline or "flake" form of graphite consists of many graphene sheets stacked together.
The carbon-carbon bond length in graphene is about 0.142 nanometers (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Nanometer).[5] (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/#cite_note-4) Graphene sheets stack to form graphite (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Graphite) with an interplanar spacing of 0.335 nm, which means that a stack of 3 million sheets would be only one millimeter thick. Graphene is the basic structural element of some carbon allotropes (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Allotropy) including graphite, charcoal (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Charcoal), carbon nanotubes (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Carbon_nanotubes) and fullerenes (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Fullerenes). It can also be considered as an indefinitely large aromatic (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Aromaticity) molecule, the limiting case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (http://www.subsim.com/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbons).