News Intel Smashes Transistor Limitations

From PC-World:

Intel is trumpeting a technology breakthrough it says will lead to billion-transistor processors by 2007, resulting in computing power well beyond what's capable today.

The advance is a new kind of transistor, made under a new process and using as-yet-unspecified materials. It should help Intel solve current problems of power consumption and heat, as it creates smaller and faster transistors for future chips, says Ken David, director of components research for Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group.

Still, an analyst notes that while Intel may have found one way around the problem, its competitors may have their own solutions by the time Intel implements the new technology, expected by 2007.

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That should allow Moore's law to trundle on for a bit longer...