AMD transistor tech
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on June 12, 2003 at 4:33:56 PM
Intel isn't the only one worried about transistors in the future. AMD is preaching their new ways, including Silicon-on-insulator and nickel-silicide transistors. Using these methods can speed up transistors already being made.
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In the second paper, AMD showed how it experimentally boosted performance another 20 percent to 25 percent on the nickel transistors by adding strained silicon. Strained silicon involves physically stretching the silicon atoms apart from one another on select chip layers so electrons can travel more freely and rapidly. Stretching is accomplished by inserting germanium atoms, the melons of the chip world, into layers of apricot-sized silicon atoms.