Daily Term:
strained silicon
A process developed by IBM and announced in June 2001 whereby a microchip's
silicon is stretched so that the atoms that make up the silicon are aligned.
This results in silicon with rows of aligned atoms, which lets electrons
flow at speeds up to 70% faster than nonstretched (or nonstrained) silicon.
This, in turn, enables the microchips that use strained silicon to operate
up to 35% faster than ordinary microchips.
David Ferrin
Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones
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