To Add Speed, Chipmakers Tune Structure
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To understand the quest to build ever faster and more powerful computers, it's helpful to understand the problems that hold them back from getting faster in the first place.  While chips themselves are getting faster all the time, faster is a relative term.
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The chipmaker says its new method allows extraneous silicon to be utilized rather than discarded.
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Advanced Micro Devices plans to demonstrate its version of a new approach to processor design on Tuesday, with a chip that is expected to offer faster computing and relatively less power consumption.
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Chipmaker's speedy Pentium 4 gets even faster.
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Researchers at IBM  and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon, boosting  semiconductor performance at a time when such gains are increasingly hard to come by, the companies said on Sunday.
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Upcoming chips will lead to relatively inexpensive hardware, company says.
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The chipmaker appears to have met its most recent deadline for production of the smaller-featured chips.
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A competing chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices will likely arrive several months earlier.
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A new group of processors could put the chipmaker inside your set-top box.
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The manufacturing technology can result in faster chips without increasing power requirements, say the companies. By Darrell Dunn.
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Intel is researching technology that weds memory chips to processor cores, and can yield impressive gains in speed and efficiency.
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TechWeb - The smaller the design, the more transistors can be built on microprocessor, increasing its performance to power ratio.
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Extended collaboration could result in chips built on 32-nanometer technology.
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We&#39;ve known about &quot;strained silicon&quot; for a while--but now there&#39;s a better way to do it. Straining silicon improves chip performance.
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Advanced Micro Devices has begun to incorporate a form of strained silicon into its chips, a design twist that will let the company increase the performance of its processors.
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IBMÂ has successfully demonstrated a new technique for improving transistor performance that will help the company build smaller, more powerful chips in the next decade, company researchers said Monday.
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Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip.