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IBM Breaks Silicon Speed Record
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Posted by: TotalRecall
IBM has developed the fastest silcon transistor, paving the way for faster silicon chips. Here's a snip:
IBM has refined its silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology to produce transistors that are far thinner than others. As a result, information can travel faster or at the same speed using far less power.
The new transistor is capable of operating at 210GHz using just 1 milliamp of electrical current, or about 80 percent faster than current technology while using half as much power.
Current transistors are only capable of running around 40Ghz. IBM hopes to incorporate these into telecommunications and networking soon, but it will be some time before they reach the desktop. Read more here.
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