Aaron Blosser wrote:
> IBM uses copper in some of it's ASIC (application specific integrated
> circuit) using .16 micron technology. Those bad boys are fast...up to
> 800MHz. And I think IBM fabs some PowerPC's using copper, but curiously
> those are running around 400MHz.
>
> Intel says they can keep using aluminum up to about .13 micron width at
> which time aluminum just don't get much smaller. So then they'll go to
> copper, and I can gaurantee they're already doing research with copper,
> thanks to what an anonymous Intel folk shared with me recently.
http://www.microprocessor.sscc.ru/news/
Yikes! Apparently the "Elbrus E2K" is a 0.18 micron *386 compatible
running at 1.2GHz
All the Digital/Compaq Alpha chips use .35 micron fabs.
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