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Reuters News Wire (reuters@telecom-digest.org) Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:28:07 -0500
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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.
Transistors are the basic building blocks of the processors found in
"What we've been doing in the last several years is pushing the
"What we've done in demonstrating this is that we're nowhere near
The transistor achieved a speed of 500 gigahertz, which is more than
That speed was hit only when IBM researchers, working with
Clay Ryder, president of Sageza Group, a technology market research
"We can build a (race car) that can go 240 miles per hour, but is that
Most improvements in chip speeds over the years have come from
"That means you can have Babe Ruth-style scenarios where you step up
Meyerson forecasts that the advances will show up in real products
Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited.
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