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Dec 10, 2000 - 05:26 PM
New Intel Breakthrough Promises a Superfast Chip for the Future %) AP Photo
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By May Wong
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of
computer chips, says it has built the world's smallest and fastest transistor
- a milestone that will allow the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company to build
within the next five or 10 years microprocessors that will be 10 times more
powerful than the ones available today.
Intel officials plan to share details of the breakthrough Monday in San
Francisco at the International Electron Devices Meeting, a technical
conference for semiconductor engineers and scientists.
Chips, which are the brains of computers, contain transistors that act like
switches controlling the flow of data. The smaller the transistors, the
faster the chips can perform.
Today's fastest chip on the market, Intel's Pentium 4, squeezes 42 million
transistors onto a sliver of silicon. With the latest tiny transistors,
future chips could have 400 million or more transistors. The new transistors,
Intel said, are .03 microns wide, or about three atoms thick. A pile of
100,000 of them would equal the thickness of a sheet of paper, the company
said.
"Semiconductors have been on this growth curve for a long time, and Intel has
validated that we'll be able to continue on this path," said Jim Handy, a
chief analyst with Dataquest.
Other semiconductor manufacturers, such as IBM Corp. and Advanced Micro
Devices, Inc., have all been locked in a race with Intel to create faster,
smaller chips.
For the moment, Intel is holding the crown.
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