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To: Duncan Baird who wrote ()2/6/2000 11:59:00 PM
From: milo_morai  Read Replies (2) of 1577839
 
IBM Says Experimental Chip Five Times Faster Than Existing Ones

San Francisco, Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp.,
the world's biggest computer company, said it has developed a computer chip
that runs up to five times faster that today's top chips, consuming half the
power.

IBM said it will demonstrate the chip and the technology, called Interlocked
Pipelined CMOS, at the International Solid- State Circuits Conference in San
Francisco Wednesday. The chips can reach speeds of 3.3 gigahertz to 4.5
gigahertz a second. A gigahertz is a billion cycles. Typical chips in a personal
computer run from 450 million cycles to 750 million cycles.

IBM and semiconductor makers such as No. 1 Intel Corp. and rival Advanced
Micro Devices Inc. are in a race to make faster chips to power more
sophisticated software programs. Reducing power consumption makes the
faster chips more useful in battery- powered, portable devices such as laptop
computers.

``Increasingly, performance gains will be driven by innovations in chip design,'
Randall Isaac, IBM Research's vice president of systems, technology and
science, said in a statement.

Intel and Advanced Micro both are expected to announce at the conference
that they've designed a microprocessor capable of running at 1 gigahertz. IBM
didn't say when its experimental chips would be readily available.

IBM fell 1 1/2 to 115 5/8 on Friday. Intel rose 9/16 to 104 3/4. Advanced
Micro fell 7/16 to 38 9/16.

Feb/06/2000 22:00

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