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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 210.78-4.8%Dec 12 9:30 AM EST
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To: ChrisBBo who wrote (210913)9/14/2006 1:52:08 PM
From: fastpathguruRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Well, if the wires are scaled 100%, that means their area are halved in areas of the chip that are wire limited - like the core. That makes the wires "twice as fast" - well not entirely, since there's inductance too, and resistance changes in a nonlinear way in response to size reduction at nano scales.

I would intuitively expect frequency to scale with the length of the wires, not their area...

i.e. 90(nm)/60(nm)% (not including other effects...)

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