A newly found phenomenon could yield transistors with greatly enhanced capacitance. And that, in turn, could lead to the revival of clock speed as the measure of a computer's power, by preventing heat buildup.
May 18, 2011 11:30 pm | Updated August 23, 2016 12:10 am IST
For Daily::Attn:Mr.PKS.. rpting my pic for the revised story on IBM's open chip developments, now entitled "IBM 'opens' up its chip technology" .Cap::The several Power6 chips on the ceramic package pictured above contain more than 2.8 billion separate transistors. Inset:A single Power chip of the current range,shown beside a drawing pin.Photo:Handout_E_Mail from Anand Parthasaraty.
A newly found phenomenon could yield transistors with greatly enhanced capacitance. And that, in turn, could lead to the revival of clock speed as the measure of a computer's power, by preventing heat buildup.
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