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3 Terahertz?!?! *drool*
I have heard recently that they have found a way to get into the terahertz of procs (for those of you who don't know 1000 gigahertz). The only limiting factor of the current processors is that heat is generated when the transistors switch in the processor. They have found a way to eliminate or greatly reduce the heat generated by these transistors, meaning low heat and low power comsuption. Wow, terahertz...screw conroe, I want that!
Thideras
EDIT: Found some sites:
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2045786/terahertz-chips-hot-handle
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192201856
Quotes for those who don't want to go the links:
"Intel claims that the design is also likely to reduce soft errors and will eliminate what is known as the 'floating body effect', a tendency for charges to float in the substrate and alter the device's behaviour. Elements of the design will be introduced into Intel chips as soon as 2005, and by 2010 it will allow chips to operate at only 0.6v.
Intel says it has already produced a transistor with a 15nm gate running at 2.6THz at 0.8v. The company has yet to show that it can integrate such devices into a processor and mass produce it. But Marcyk said: "We have shown that we can produce the technology for devices that will go into production by 2009. That's very good news."
Work in progress
The shine seemed to have been taken off Intel's announcement when AMD demonstrated a conventional CMOS transistor with a 15nm gate clocking more than 3THz. However, it was not clear how useful the device would be in practice, although the fact that AMD is not abandoning work on SOI designs may signal that it is less than ideal."
"Scientists at the University of Rochester have come up with a new "ballistic computing" chip design that could lead to 3,000-gigahertz — that's 3-terahertz — processors that produce very little heat. The heat generation for early versions of the design should be around a few microwatts per transistor, Feldman estimates, orders of magnitude less than current high-frequency transistors. "Now that's without doing any tricks to cut down the power," he says. "There are great opportunities for low-power design. But that's the future.""
I have heard recently that they have found a way to get into the terahertz of procs (for those of you who don't know 1000 gigahertz). The only limiting factor of the current processors is that heat is generated when the transistors switch in the processor. They have found a way to eliminate or greatly reduce the heat generated by these transistors, meaning low heat and low power comsuption. Wow, terahertz...screw conroe, I want that!
Thideras
EDIT: Found some sites:
http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/features/2045786/terahertz-chips-hot-handle
http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192201856
Quotes for those who don't want to go the links:
"Intel claims that the design is also likely to reduce soft errors and will eliminate what is known as the 'floating body effect', a tendency for charges to float in the substrate and alter the device's behaviour. Elements of the design will be introduced into Intel chips as soon as 2005, and by 2010 it will allow chips to operate at only 0.6v.
Intel says it has already produced a transistor with a 15nm gate running at 2.6THz at 0.8v. The company has yet to show that it can integrate such devices into a processor and mass produce it. But Marcyk said: "We have shown that we can produce the technology for devices that will go into production by 2009. That's very good news."
Work in progress
The shine seemed to have been taken off Intel's announcement when AMD demonstrated a conventional CMOS transistor with a 15nm gate clocking more than 3THz. However, it was not clear how useful the device would be in practice, although the fact that AMD is not abandoning work on SOI designs may signal that it is less than ideal."
"Scientists at the University of Rochester have come up with a new "ballistic computing" chip design that could lead to 3,000-gigahertz — that's 3-terahertz — processors that produce very little heat. The heat generation for early versions of the design should be around a few microwatts per transistor, Feldman estimates, orders of magnitude less than current high-frequency transistors. "Now that's without doing any tricks to cut down the power," he says. "There are great opportunities for low-power design. But that's the future.""
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