AMD is tradinat a PE of 395 with earnings at .068 (less than 7 cents) per share and pays no dividend at all.
Intel stock is down this morning:
AMD stock is down in the morning as well:
Posted on 12/07/2005 8:21:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2005--Intel Corporation today announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic products beginning in the second half of the next decade.
Intel and QinetiQ researchers have jointly demonstrated an enhancement-mode transistor using indium antimonide (chemical symbol: InSb) to conduct electrical current. Transistors control the flow of information/electrical current inside a chip. The prototype transistor is much faster and consumes less power than previously announced transistors. Intel anticipates using this new material to complement silicon, further extending Moore's Law.
Significant power reduction at the transistor level, accompanied by a substantial performance increase, could play a crucial role in delivering future platforms to computer users by allowing an increased number of features and capabilities. Considerably less energy used and heat generated could add significant battery life for mobile devices and increase opportunities for building smaller more powerful products.
"The results of this research reinforce our confidence in being able to continue to follow Moore's Law beyond 2015. As was the case with other Intel technical advancements, we expect these new materials will enhance the future of silicon-based semiconductors," said Ken David, director of components research for Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group. "By providing 50 percent more performance while reducing power consumption by roughly 10 times, this new material will give us considerable flexibility because we will have ability to optimize for both performance and power of future platforms."
InSb is in a class of materials called III-V compound semiconductors which are in use today for a variety of discrete and small scale integrated devices such as radio-frequency amplifiers, microwave devices and semiconductor lasers.
Researchers from Intel and QinetiQ have previously announced transistors with InSb channels. The prototype transistors being announced today, with a gate length of 85nm, are the smallest ever, at less than half the size of those disclosed earlier. This is the first time that enhancement mode transistors have been demonstrated. Enhancement mode transistors are the predominant type of transistor used in microprocessors and other logic. These transistors are able to operate at a reduced voltage, about 0.5 volts -- roughly half of that for transistors in today's chips -- which leads to chips with far less power consumption.
"This research is a great example of how QinetiQ, working with other world-leading companies such as Intel, is targeting its research in technologies with commercial potential," said Tim Phillips, business manager of the Fast Transistors group at QinetiQ.
Details will be provided at the IEDM conference Dec. 5-7, in Washington, D.C., where the formal paper describing this advancement will be delivered. The paper is titled, "85nm Gate Length Enhancement and Depletion mode InSb Quantum Well Transistors for Ultra High Speed and Very Low Power Digital Logic Applications."
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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And Intel stock is still down today.
Of course, Intel hopes anything will take attention away from the fact that AMD is seriously kicking their a##es in the CPU arena right now. :-)
FYI Ping
III-V compounds are the gateway to terahertz clock speeds.
This is awesome, the 10times lower power. Todays chips are exceedingly hot. Even the Pentium M can get pretty hot. This process will also go along ways towards achieving what has is the current goalof Laptop computer manufacturers, the small, 8 hour laptop (on batteries).
This is the minimum requirement for Windows Vista.
AMD is tradinat a PE of 395 with earnings at .068 (less than 7 cents) per share and pays no dividend at all.
Intel stock is down this morning:
AMD stock is down in the morning as well:
Yep, Microsoft (and Linux) can bloat their software just as fast. It's the Anti-Moore's law.
No, AMD's stock isn't beating Intel's, but their CPUs are and have been for months now.
UK researchers find way to reduce power consumption of transistors in computer chips
University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a means of reducing gate leakage current of transistors in computer chips that will permit chip producers to continue developing more efficient and powerful chips with reduced power consumption.
Zhi Chen, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, found that applying rapid thermal processing directly on gate insulators – used to control current flow of transistors in computer chips – can dramatically reduce the chips' leakage current and correspondingly the power consumption. In fact, the technique can improve the insulating qualities of gate insulators so that their direct tunneling current is reduced by 10,000 to 100,000 times. No effect was found if rapid thermal processing was not directly applied on the gate insulators.
In order to improve computer chips' performance, transistors' size and gate insulators have to be continuously shrunken so that more components can be packed into a single chip. Computer chip producers were hitting a wall in downscaling the transistors and gate insulators because of their inability to reduce the leakage current of the existing gate insulators. This new technique will help the chip producers to develop more powerful chips with low-power consumption.
Chen and his team will present their findings in a paper to be presented Dec. 7-9 at the 2005 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium in Bethesda, Md.
The stock market valuation isn't everything. Not all stock traders who hold Intel or AMD stock understand the differenes between AMD and Intel processors. The general public understands it even less.
> ... Intel anticipates using this new material to
> complement silicon, further extending Moore's Law.
> ... "The results of this research reinforce our
> confidence in being able to continue to follow
> Moore's Law beyond 2015.
I wonder which ML they are referring to here, the
original doubling of circuit density every 12 (oops 18,
now 24) months, or the more popularly assumed doubling
of performance every [pick a period].
The perf ramp hit a wall a couple of years ago, and
show little sign of improving the current perf creep.
And yes, AMD is creeping up faster than Intel. All
Intel has to promote these days is vague future promises.
No problemo...
Bill Gates had the foresight to develop a Windows version to bog that sucker down YEARS ago.
There's NO WAY he's ever gonna let Intel get ahead of him!
They're not vague to those who understand them.
I have heard that AMD will leapfrog over Intel technologically.
Any idea when that will happen in terms of bringin products to market?
I sold my first computer system in 1965 and it was so big that you could walk inside the frames. The cost was over $3 million and it had 40 kbytes of core memory. The memory bits were actually small donut shaped pieces of iron oxide that were physically strung on fine wire {by hand}. The pc that I'm using has 256 GB, that is 40,000 vs 256,000,000,000. That means this $500 pc has has 6.4 million times more memory, millions of times more speed, and thousands of times more reliability. Moore Law is alive and well and will continue into the future. {However, the commission dollars were much better}. :):)
There's NO WAY he's ever gonna let Intel get ahead of him!
Right. A version of Windows that will phone home to Redmond five million times a second to verify that it is a legal copy.
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