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Monday, November 26, 2001
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/26/011126hnintel.xml Intel rethinks transistor design for end of decade By James Niccolai INTEL WILL OUTLINE small but important changes next week to the way it expects to make transistors in the latter half of the decade, as it continues to battle the laws of physics to build ever-faster microprocessors. The changes will affect both the structure of transistors and the materials used to make them, and will be described by Intel engineers at next week's International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington. The changes could be introduced as soon as 2005, and attempt to address two of the biggest obstacles to building faster PC chips: heat and power consumption....
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