AMD claims transistor breakthrough
Posted by configure on 03 April 2003 - 02:01 · 9 comments & 985 views
Chip maker AMD claims to have become the first in the semiconductor industry to achieve critical research milestones for next-generation transistor development.
In lab work to be fully unveiled in June, AMD researchers say they have created and demonstrated a high-performance transistor which is up to 30 per cent faster than the best available today.

The company's Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator technology is expected to play a crucial role in semiconductor manufacturing in the second half of this decade.

In related research, AMD has also demonstrated a strained silicon transistor achieving 20-25 per cent higher performance than conventional strained silicon devices through the successful use of metal gates.

AMD described the achievements as key milestones in its technology roadmap for future processors.

"Transistors that operate with higher performance, less current leakage and lower voltage requirements are providing AMD design teams with the building blocks they need to create the solutions customers want," said Craig Sander, vice president of process technology development at AMD.

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by username on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:13
"strained silicon transistor" isn't that something that Intel is working on too? Anyways, good for AMD
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by pHuzi0n on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:43
IBM was the main developer of it but Intel had a partnership going with them... AMD has beat them both though
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by DrOmango on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:46
okay okay... now where are the processors they promised.... they need to be top again!
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by j.reed on 03 Apr 2003 - 04:51
Damn. They cheap you get 30 of them for each penny! Isn't percent one word?
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by pHuzi0n on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:09
30 of them for one cent would actually be VERY expensive when you consider that they have about 30 million transistors per cpu, that comes out to $10,000 per cpu!!!
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by leebobs on 03 Apr 2003 - 10:19
Hmmmm.... Was an AMD fan, but their poor level of innovation and drive turned me off them. Intel all the way baby!!
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Krux on 03 Apr 2003 - 18:45
[neoquote=#4.0 by leebobs]Hmmmm.... Was an AMD fan, but their poor level of innovation and drive turned me off them. Intel all the way baby!![/neoquote] innovation and drive?!?! you mean pushing tripe !@#% with high clock speed so the stupid masses will buy it? ohhhh ok your right they aren't doing that.
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by PeterTHX on 04 Apr 2003 - 01:53
Puhleese. Intel develops many things. The P4 is still the top performing desktop processor available. Sometimes speed DOES mean something, not to mention the untapped potential of HyperThreading. SSE2 applications are becoming more and more common. In a month it will leap to an 800MHz bus. Prescott (P5?) looks even better. How about chipsets? AMD relies on VIA (craptacular) and nForce2 is still very buggy. The 850e (which is 2 year old tech) stands as the BX of the P4 family. i865 (Springdale) and i875 (Canterwood) stand to kick even more @$$. AMD "announced" SOI technology nearly 2 years ago. Only NOW have they had prototypes working. Opteron was supposed to have it, remember? You wonder why they don't have the business market? Because businesses want RELIABILTY. Intel is reliable. Cutting clockspeed, putting more cache and slapping a "3000+" label on a product is a joke.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by CrimethInc. on 04 Apr 2003 - 06:14
c'mon guy! AMD is the underdog, and they aren't favored at all in this game of processing. i am an intel user but give the company time to get out of their stuggle phase. they did some innovative stuff before intel - like the double bus before the P4 quad-bus. i mean they desirve some props, and in time they could become an innovative exciting company - they're still in the coccon
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