[ShadowAce]

[ozoneliar]

Any innovation by an American company is good news.

[Boundless]

See also earlier thread:
Intel Announces Chip Technology Breakthrough Using New Materials
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535698/posts

The Register, at:
Intel, Qinetiq tout quantum well transistor breakthrough
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/07/intel_qinetiq_quantum_well/
has a subtitle of: "0.5V, 300GHz CPU, anyone?"

Now 300 GHz would be a major advance, but the
Reg provides no info on where they got that
number, or if they just made it up.

[nickcarraway]

Article on the same topic here:Intel Eyes Future Transistor

[nevergiveup]

Yawwwwwwn!
I was making III-V transistors with indium and phosphorus (InP = Indium Phosphide) back in 1973. Indium antimonide ain't that much different.

In theory, they are much much better than silicon BUT they're hard and expensive to make.

Twenty years afterward, I bumped into a guy saying he was developing an InP transistor and had almost solved a major problem. I simply told him to go read my thesis.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Gallium Asenide is somewhat better to use (and sell) but III-V devices are definitely specialty devices where $ don't matter.

I'll believe this new IBM announcement when I can buy it in 2015.

[DallasMike]

...indium (In) and antimony (Sb).

Indium? So now we're outsourcing raw materials?

[Marine_Uncle]

Thought you may be interested.

[SW6906]

BTTT for Moore's Law!

[SunkenCiv]

Intel Announces Chip Technology Breakthrough Using New Materials
YAHOOOoooooooo | Wednesday December 7, 11:00 am ET
Posted on 12/07/2005 8:21:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535698/posts