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Intel to deliver first computer chip with two billion transistors
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 4, 2008 Intel announced on Monday that it has created a two-billion-transistor computer chip that will give supercomputers "a leap in performance and capabilities." The world's largest maker of microprocessors says its new Itanium brand chip, codenamed "Tukwila," built for supercomputers increases the power of machines more than twofold and will be available near the end of the year. The "quad core" chip is designed with four processors that share computing workloads, according to Intel. "The quad-core chip is coupled with higher bandwidths and large caches to enable a doubling in performance of Tukwila over the current Intel Itanium 9100 series processor," the Santa Clara, California, company said in a release. Previously, the highest number of transistors packed into a computer chip was 1.7 billion in a two-core microprocessor, according to Intel. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Computer Chip Architecture, Technology and Manufacture Nano Technology News From SpaceMart.com
New Polymer Could Improve Semiconductor Manufacturing, Packaging
Troy NY (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Polyset Company have developed a new inexpensive, quick-drying polymer that could lead to dramatic cost savings and efficiency gains in semiconductor manufacturing and computer chip packaging. Along with allowing enhanced performance and cost savings for conventional photolithography processes, the new material, called polyset epoxy siloxane (PES), should also enable a new generation of lower-cost, on-chip nanoimprinting lithography technology, according to the researchers. |
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