"Researchers at Big Blue have come up with a way to create vacuum spaces between copper wires in semiconductors, an insulating technique that will allow these chips to increase in speed and performance and reduce power consumption. Early indications show that chip performance can be increased by up to 35 percent, power consumption can be cut by 15 percent, or some combination of increased performance and power savings can be achieved.
The vacuum technique, called Airgap, will be introduced to IBM's manufacturing process with the 32-nanometer generation of microprocessors, said IBM fellow Dan Edelstein, who led the project. These chips will start rolling out in 2009. IBM's semiconductor partners--including Advanced Micro Devices, Toshiba, Sony "and soon to be others"-- will be able to adopt the technology for their own chips, he added."
Cont'd: http://news.com.com/IBM+puts+vacuum+spa … ?tag=st_lh
sweet. Imagine to OCs on those chips
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lol, it's a vacuum gap, but they call it an air gap. Good idea though
I guess Spacegap would sound too corny, but I still like my "Space Chips" better. "Airgap" sounds too much like a kind of shoe.cospengle wrote:
lol, it's a vacuum gap, but they call it an air gap. Good idea though
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-05-03 12:15:43)
Sounds expensive... should be good though. And it's 32nm. Wooyay, the future looks good.
Vacuum packed Swiss Chees chips.
Screw copper, I want fiber motherboards and cpus dammit!
Maybe by the time you get your paws on one of those, IBM will figure out a way to bend light a year later, and do away with fiber altogether...thus rendering your rig obsolete.ReTox wrote:
Screw copper, I want fiber motherboards and cpus dammit!
http://members.shaw.ca/retox/cartman_pissed.gif
Or maybe...we'll see the return...of...
VACUUM TUBES!
Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-05-04 00:03:45)
Bending light is a neccessity of optical circuits:unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Maybe by the time you get your paws on one of those, IBM will figure out a way to bend light a year later, and do away with fiber altogether...thus rendering your rig obsolete.
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/1119 … 11903.html