Monday, January 29, 2007

intel and ibm on new chip technology

jan 28th, 2007

the new intel 'breakthrough' has been hyped a lot (and ibm is claiming they have the same thing too) -- something to do with new hafnium-based processes to improve the insulation and thus reduce the leakage current and thus heat generation.

intel has always had an edge in the chip design and the *process* such as CMOS, HMOS, etc. and have not been that good at the actual manufacturing activity.

any comments by anyone on these new developments?

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088078,00.asp

i own intel stock and am hoping this will push it up. i missed out on buying some texas instruments stock, and it has done rather well recently.

1 comment:

habc said...

OT - awesome article in German magazine

This essay is an excerpt of Henryk M. Broder's book "Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren," ("Hurray! We're Capitulating") published by Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag in 2006. The book spent a number of weeks atop the DER SPIEGEL bestseller list.

"Hurray! We're Capitulating!"

The mullahs are playing with fire.