IBM chips with nano-sized holes: a glimpse into the next Cell? |
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Peter Svensson of the Associated Press reports on a technology that could be seen in future chips made by IBM for other companies, including the Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3.Apparently IBM has discovered that chips with miniscule nano-sized holes in them can run faster and use less energy. IBM has announced that this novel now way of creating chips could be potentially one of the most significant advances in chip manufacturing in years.
This new technique in chip manufacturing was invented at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose California, and the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, N.Y.
It was adapted for commercial use by the University at Albany and IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center in East Fishkill N.Y.
IBM says that the technology could be integrated to existing manufacturing lines and applied to current chips, boosting performance by 35 percent or cutting power consumption by around the same percentage. IBM also noted that they expect to use the technique by 2009.
A better Cell by 2009? Cool.
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man this sounds pretty cool maby they can actually fit some cache inside there quad core cpu's with this? oh and first post lol
ahh wait no they cant as all it does is increase preformance and decrease power consumption
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