Swiss-Cheese Chip

Looks like engineers are getting ideas from Cheese.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2107788,00.html

Another article at the BBC website refers to it as "snowflakes"; perhaps a more complimentary analogy.

One interesting aspect of this is:

BBC said:

The new chips will be used initially in IBM's server machines - used by businesses and research groups - and the process will then be rolled out to the firm's semiconductor partners....they expect it to be in chips in 2009

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Given that AMD qualifies as an IBM partner, perhaps this may give them a needed shot in the arm, provided it's not too little, too late...