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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (98375)	2/7/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim and all, all the products mentioned in Intel's ISSCC papers will be commercially available this year. Barry ------------------------------------------ biz.yahoo.com Monday February 7, 12:00 am Eastern Time IBM says will show designs for world's fastest chips By Therese Poletti SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) this week will show designs of computer chips that they say will be the world's fastest. IBM researchers will announce at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference that they have developed a new family of high-speed computer circuits that run at speeds of 3.3 to 4.5 gigahertz, up to five times faster than today's fastest Pentium III chips. The new design employs conventional silicon transistors, but uses only half the power of a standard high-performance chip. ``Not only are we in the gigahertz era of microprocessors, but we see our way clear to three to four gigahertz in the future,' said Randall Isaac, vice president of systems, technology and science at IBM Research, in an interview. ``One gigahertz will be commercially available within one year, three and four gigahertz will take three to four years to be commercially available.' IBM said that its circuits use a design innovation called ``Interlocked Pipelined CMOS,' which stands for complementary metal oxide semiconductor. The new system has a distributed clock function. In most standard computer chips, the clock paces the speed of the circuits and a centralized clock synchronizes the operations of the entire chip. The clock waits for all operations on a chip to finish before starting the next cycle, so the speed of the chip is limited to the pace of the slowest operation. To increase speed, IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits. The design thus allows faster sections of circuits the freedom to run at higher cycles. It also significantly reduces power requirements. Isaac said that these super-fast chips will be used in the not-too-distant future to run Web servers, Internet traffic, and increase the speed of data analysis and simulation. Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, is even closer than IBM to having a one gigahertz processor commercially available. Its fastest Pentium III is currently running at 800 megahertz. At the ISSCC conference, Intel plans to disclose details of its one gigahertz processor, which is expected to be introduced later this year. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel will also provide some new technical details of its forthcoming Itanium chip, the first in a family of chips designed around a new architecture that it has been jointly developing with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news). The Itanium chip is one of the biggest engineering feats undertaken at the chip giant, with 25.4 million transistors. It is the first chip to use Intel's new 64-bit architecture, which crunches data in 64 bits chunks versus 32 bits in chips today. ``One of the key things with IA-64 (the new architecture) is that it really is going to a new form of technology in terms of the core design,' said Fred Pollack, director of Intel's Microcomputer Research Lab and an Intel fellow. ``That will allow us to push performance even higher using all the techniques over the long term.' The Itanium chip, formerly code-named Merced, is expected to be shipping in volume in the second half of 2000 for use in high-performance workstations and server computers that run networks. Pollack also noted that all the products mentioned in Intel's ISSCC papers will be commercially available this year.