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Graphene nanotubes promise better stacked chips

...using carbon nanotubes, which they say promise to be more reliable than copper interconnects for commercial production of 3D chip stacks Read more

12 December, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Graphene ribbons to replace copper on chips?

...think layered graphene nanoribbons could be a good candidate to replace the copper interconnects. "Graphene shows enormous potential for use in interconnects, and stacking up... Read more

20 November, 2011

After silicon: What will power computing for the next 10 years and beyond?

...layers of silicon circuits on top of each other, joined using vertical copper interconnects, known as through-silicon vias (TSVs). However, stacking silicon is no... Read more

11 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Intel plans aggressive 'Willamette' intro

...use it as a mobile processor. Intel has said it will introduce copper interconnects -- tiny wires that connect transistors inside a chip -- with the move... Read more

9 May, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Does Moore's Law no longer apply?

...of new processor technologies that do the job better. IBM is utilising copper interconnects, for example, on its PowerPC processors. The company is also beginning... Read more

9 February, 2000 by John Spooner

News Burst: AMD samples next-generation Athlons

...mass-market volumes by midyear, will use such performance-enhancing tweaks as copper interconnects and on-die L2 cache; the improvements should help the AMD... Read more

6 April, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

HP claims nanowire breakthrough for chips

...incorporated into other types of chips. Many analysts already predict that the copper interconnects that supplanted aluminum in the 1990s will themselves have to get... Read more

16 January, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

Intel researches nanotubes for chip designs

...electrical resistance, which in turn reduces performance. Chipmakers switched from aluminum to copper interconnects in the late 1990s to get around the problem. Unfortunately for... Read more

13 November, 2006 by Michael Kanellos

Paint-on lasers promise faster chip future

...and faster. Intel has previously said that above around 10GHz signalling speed, copper interconnects may stop being viable — a frequency that is expected to be... Read more

19 April, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Chip designers voyage to voltage island

...which uses a 90-nanometre manufacturing process along with materials such as copper interconnects, will show up in prototype chips in the third quarter and... Read more

10 June, 2002 by John G.Spooner

Dell Precision M40

...Mobile Pentium III Processor-M. This 0.13-micron chip benefits from copper interconnects, 512KB of Level 2 cache and enhancements to Intel's SpeedStep... Read more

15 January, 2002 by Charles McLellan

Toshiba finds 'nothing' makes a better transistor

...showing many advances and Motorola disclosing a process that combines SOI with copper interconnects. Previous IEDMs have concentrated more on scaling and size issues: The... Read more

5 December, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel to reveal chip-packing breakthrough

New technology will allow computers to handle 20GHz processors Read more

8 October, 2001 by Michael Kanellos

AMD revs up Athlon 4 and Duron chips

New Durons get the Morgan core with PowerNow power management - AMD's answer to Intel's Speedstep Read more

21 August, 2001 by John G.Spooner

Dell Inspiron 8100 1.13GHz VT

...to be fabricated using a 0.13 micron (130 nanometre) process with copper interconnects, resulting in a CPU that's physically smaller, faster and less... Read more

20 August, 2001 by Charles McLellan

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