Intel and IBM Design Next Generation of Microprocessor

[ryanmac]

IBM and Intel announced a new type of transistor that will lead to the next generation of smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient processors.

Target to perform processor-intense tasks, the computer that both IBM and Intel would like to develop should make editing movies easier and playing video games more enjoyable.

[humpty]

with all the dual cores and all, there's still another emerging processor???

wow, technology, you really can't tell what's next can you hahhaaha

looking forward to hear more bout this new chip

[mini_0]

For designers working on the next generation of microprocessors, Moore's Law is becoming Moore's Curse.
Moore's Law--the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip will approximately double every 18 to 24 months--has been the bedrock of the high-tech industry for years, as the phenomenon has given chip designers a way to progressively incorporate new features on silicon.Chip designers, however, are now butting up against the laws of physics. Ten years from now, chips will run at 30GHz and churn a trillion operations per second. Unfortunately, with today's design technologies, that would How microprocessors changed the world lead to chips putting out the same amount of heat, proportionally, as a nuclear power plant.