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Intel's Breakthrough
By Robert Service July 2005


Moore's Law, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this spring, has been the semiconductor industry's greatest blessing. In 1965, Intel cofounder Gordon Moore projected that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years. At the time, a chip held just a few dozen transistors. Today, Intel's high-end chip contains more than 1.7 billion transistors, and that number is expected to exceed 10 billion by 2012. This steady four-decade march has fueled the modern computer revolution and made Intel into a tech powerhouse.

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http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/issue/feature_intel.asp

Baldrick,

The implications of this breakthrough could deliver a whole new class of CPU's capable of tremendous speeds and larger bandwidths.

We also don't know what Intel showed Steve Jobs running in their labs ?

Traditional Silicon CPU's have bumped up against a major speed Ceiling that's why IBM has been unable to deliver the 3 GHZ G5 in quantity and in a Low Power version.

Moore's law, Quicktime 7 and HD Video have alot to do with AAPL's latest move.

Br, Altaire 4


Scientists at Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., reported on 5 January that they have built an experimental laser out of silicon. In principle, such lasers could allow the integration of electronics and optics in standard-issue silicon chips, rather than in chips made of exotic semiconductors. If that happens, fiber-optic connections, now seen only in long-haul telecommunications networks, could finally come to the lowly PC.