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Intel lets us know today that they have achieved a major breakthrough in the field of transistors. They achieved to make a High-K Metal gate transistor which has a 60% bigger capacity towards to the current CMOS-transistors. This means that these transistors will be able to switch faster. Another important fact is that the power leakage of these transistors is 100 times smaller! This will results in more power efficient processors which run cooler. Read more here (DVHardware)

janus Senior Member Posts: 158 Joined: 2003-01-19

#49210 Posted on: 11/05/2003 01:16 AM I think everyone who keeps saying Moore's law is dead every time it seems there's an obstacle show that they're retarded. Every time someone says it, there's always another breakthrough.

janus Senior Member Posts: 158 Joined: 2003-01-19

#49226 Posted on: 11/05/2003 02:58 PM That's interesting...I've seen in a couple of Intel press releases that they also have the notion that it involves speed; I remember hyperthreading as one specific example for squeezing more performance out of it and keeping moore's law intact. Hm.

thomas997 Junior Member Posts: 12 Joined: 2003-04-21

#49250 Posted on: 11/06/2003 02:24 AM "The observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future. In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but data density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law, which Moore himself has blessed. Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades. " Speed would be a better thing to go by yeah..

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