IBM Develops Speedier Transistor
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
IBM has built a transistor that runs about 100 times faster than current chips, a development that could pave the way for ultra-fast computers and wireless networks, the computing giant said on Monday.More here.
The transistor achieved a speed of 500 gigahertz, which is more than 100 times speedier than the fastest PC chips sold today, and about 250 times faster than the typical mobile telephone chip, Meyerson said [Bernie Meyerson, head of semiconductor research for IBM].
That speed was hit only when IBM researchers, working with counterparts from the Georgia Institute of Technology, cooled the transistor to near absolute zero, but Meyerson said the device still ran at 300 gigahertz at room temperature.
posted by Fergie @ 6/20/2006 09:39:00 AM
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