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To: Mani1 who wrote (121999)	12/11/2000 12:42:30 AM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 186894

Intel Develops Microprocessors 10 Times More Powerful Monday, December 11, 2000 PALO ALTO, Calif. (Nikkei)--Intel Corp. has developed landmark technology to make microprocessors that are at least 10 times more powerful than existing microchips, giving personal computers performance comparable to mainframes or supercomputers, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun learned Sunday. Intel has succeeded in reducing the line width of transistors by 40% to 0.03 micron. At the same time, it has mounted more than 400 million transistors on an area the size of a fingernail. This is about 10 times more than the number in Pentium IV, the company's fastest microprocessor. The new chip is expected to be able to perform calculations at speeds of 10GHz using less than 1 volt and able to crunch 400 million numbers in one-fiftieth of a second. The world's largest semiconductor company hopes to market the new microprocessors by 2005. Intel will announce details at an International Electron Device meeting in San Francisco that begins on Monday. It controls 80% of the 3 trillion yen global microprocessor market. Possible applications include simultaneous language translation and automated security systems that recognize human faces, which are currently performed only by mainframes. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Monday evening edition)