Semiconductor Breakthrough: Processor 24 times faster
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Your processor can now run 24% faster at the same power levels based on the new strained silicon transistor technology, as claimed by IBM and AMD today.
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The first microprocessor to pack more than two billion transistors is launched by silicon giant Intel.
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The chip that will power the PlayStation 3 is said to be up to 10 times faster than current processors.
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Semiconductor chips that can manage a good bit of their own upkeep are moving closer to reality.
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IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have announced that they have produced a silicon chip with a marked improvement in speed by using strained silicon technology.
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Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip.
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For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines&#39; silicon brains.
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A new experimental chip from Intel could house as many as 80 separate processing engines, or cores.
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Developments in silicon carbide wafers may lead to a new world of fast, robust electronics.
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Via's new processor is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications.
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A new chip from Via Technologies, which supplies processors to ultraportables from OQO, Samsung, Packard Bell and others, promises to double the performance of the super-small computers in which it's embedded.
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It said it has demonstrated a working version of the technology based on its Opteron chip. By Darrell Dunn. The shift to dual-core microprocessors continues to accelerate.
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Thanks to a new &#39;Dual Stress Liner&#39; strained silicon manufacturing technique, AMD and IBM today announced that new Athlon64 and Power processors, set to debut in early 2005, could offer a performance boost of up to 24 percent.
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A new computer chip developed by Intel promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center, while consuming as much energy as a light bulb. By the Associated Press.
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AMD and IBM announced a collaborative breakthrough in processor technology today, marking the first use of two new techniques that advance speed and performance without requiring more power.
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A tiny, fully functional, 70-megabit static random access memory computer chip crammed with more than 500 million transistors has been developed by researchers at Intel Corp.
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A new carbon-based nanoscale material could be used to make ultrafast computers.