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Deploying 10 Gigabit Ethernet Into HPC Clusters, Server-to-Server/Server-to-Storage Infrastructure And Workstations Over CX4 Copper Interconnects
White Papers The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) over CX4 copper cabling offers a cost-effective means of extending high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity to many network areas requiring the added performance advantages of 10GbE.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Integration Of High-Performance Transistors, High-Density SRAMs, And 10-Level Copper Interconnects Into A 90 Nm CMOS Technology
White Papers This paper presents a 40 nm-gate-length transistor, an ultra-high-density 6T SRAM cell, 10-level Cu interconnects, and Very-Low-K (VLK) dielectrics for high-performance microprocessor applications. The key process features are 193 nm lithography...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Year Ago: Chip Firms Compete To Push Limits
News Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD, Texas Instruments and Samsung have revealed more details of their innovations.
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
Intel Researches Nanotubes For Chip Designs
News Chipmakers switched from aluminum to copper interconnects in the late 1990s to get around the problem. Unfortunately for Intel and other companies, the resistance will start to become a significant problem in smaller copper interconnects in the...
[November 13, 2006, 10:59]
IBM Finds Gold In Copper
News The chips use copper instead of aluminium to bridge the gaps, or interconnects, between their transistors. AMD recently announced that it had produced prototype K6 processors with copper interconnects in its Dresden, Germany, fabrication plant.
[September 24, 1999, 9:27]
A Year Ago: IBM Finds Gold In Copper
News The chips use copper instead of aluminium to bridge the gaps, or interconnects, between their transistors. AMD recently announced that it had produced prototype K6 processors with copper interconnects in its Dresden, Germany, fabrication plant.
[September 25, 2000, 7:01]
Intel Looks To Fibre-optics To Speed Chips
News The speed increase will buy time for copper, but optical interconnects will run at 30gbit/s to 60gbit/s. Over the longer term, possibly 10 years, optical interconnects could also work their way into processors themselves, where copper wiring is...
[October 19, 2001, 9:50]
Smaller Is Better, Says AMD Chief
News AMD, for example, has already begun producing Athlons with copper interconnects, which yield performance gains at higher clock speeds. But it will wait until next year to move to copper interconnects.
[June 27, 2000, 8:11]
Copper Supercharges Supercomputers
News Put simply, copper is a more efficient conductor than aluminum, making it useful in processors because it allows for smaller, thinner interconnects. IBM's manufacturing process digs tiny trenches into each oxide layer of the chip (an oxide is used...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
AMD Fires Up 1.1GHz Athlon Demo
News Those include copper interconnects and integrated Level 2 cache. The copper interconnects will show gains farther down the road, Lapinski said. The current 800MHz and forthcoming 850MHz chips utilise aluminium interconnects and an external 512KB...
[February 8, 2000, 8:52]
Pentium III Gets A New Lease On Life
News For example, many of AMD's "Thunderbird" Athlons are manufactured with copper interconnects, rather than aluminium. Copper interconnects allow for smaller die sizes than aluminium. AMD's new plant in Dresden uses copper interconnects while its...
[July 24, 2000, 13:04]
Intel To Reveal Chip-packing Breakthrough
News As a result, packaging research ranks up with the company's work on Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, copper interconnects and transistor speed, Banerjee said. The silicon layers are thinner as well, reducing the length of the interconnects...
[October 8, 2001, 10:06]
Intel Gets Optical With Fibre
News The effort is largely aimed at dodging some of the problems looming with metal interconnects and buses. Both Intel and Primarion started examining optical interconnects a few years ago. Intel's Components Research Lab is working on ways to replace...
[March 1, 2004, 14:25]
Does Moore's Law No Longer Apply?
News IBM is utilising copper interconnects, for example, on its PowerPC processors. For example, copper interconnects are more power-efficient conductors than the aluminum interconnects currently in wide use, meaning a chip will take less power and run...
[February 9, 2000, 9:37]
Intel Claims 0.13-micron Milestone
News The 0.13 process will use smaller, faster transistors, copper interconnects, and low-capacitance dielectric materials. The new P860 copper interconnects and low-capacitance dielectrics will reduce resistance by up to 40 percent, helping to isolate...
[November 8, 2000, 8:46]
800MHz Athlon Storms CES
News Later this year, copper interconnects will take the place of the aluminium interconnects now used in Athlon chips. Interconnects are tiny pieces of wire that connect transistors inside a chip. The other will utilise copper interconnect technology.
[January 6, 2000, 9:53]
AMD, Intel Pushing Beyond IGHz
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock-speed performance over the aluminum interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. The core's most important characteristics, aside from clock...
[March 9, 2000, 9:12]
Chip Wars: Is There Life After 1GHz?
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock speed performance over the aluminium interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. The core's most important characteristics, aside from clock...
[March 8, 2000, 8:59]
A Year Ago: AMD, Intel Pushing Beyond IGHz
News Copper interconnects, which connect transistors inside a processor, serve to help increase clock-speed performance over the aluminum interconnects used today by AMD and other chip makers. The core's most important characteristics, aside from clock...
[March 9, 2001, 6:00]
How IBM Plans To Change The Chip World
News Copper's advantages over aluminium, among other types of interconnects, are lower resistance, which leads to greater performance, and lower power consumption. Desktop chips, such as Intel's Pentium III, currently use aluminium interconnects.
[March 15, 2000, 14:19]
