Can never go to fast.
By stretching minute strands of silicon used in transistors, IBM researchers say they can make computer processors run about a third faster. |
The process, dubbed "strained silicon," lets electrons flow 70 percent faster through a transistor's silicon strands, said Randy Isaac, IBM's vice president of science and technology research.
A microprocessor with strained silicon transistors would run 30 or 35 percent faster, IBM estimates,A one gigahertz processor will run at about 1.3 gigahertz just because we stretch the silicon atoms -- even if we keep everything else the same," said Isaac. "This shifts the whole curve another 35 percent.
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