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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (8924)	2/17/2004 8:59:34 PM
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Intel claims world's fastest CMOS device at 100-GHz By Mark LaPedus Silicon Strategies 02/17/2004, 11:05 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO--Intel Corp. here on Monday (February 16, 2004) claimed the world's fastest CMOS device, by demonstrating separate 65- and 100-GHz voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) in the lab. The two VCOs are based on the company's 90-nm CMOS process technology, said Krishnamurthy Soumyanath, director of communications circuits research within Intel's Communications Technology Lab. The devices are quadrature VCOs, which produce two signals. Both signals are used in advanced radios to reduce data errors, he said during a presentation at the 2004 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). The event is being held in San Francisco this week. The 100-GHz VCO has been devised in separate 1- and 4-transistor designs. It is the world's fastest CMOS device, he said. "This is a world record," he told Silicon Strategies after the presentation. The technology could enable the long-awaited, integrated CMOS radio for use in advanced wireless applications, he said. It also demonstrates that CMOS can be scaled to high-speed frequencies beyond 50-GHz. "CMOS will not be the limiter," he said. "Traditionally, these frequencies have been the domain of exotic materials," he said. By exotic materials, he was referring to gallium-arsenide, indium phosphide, among others. However, Intel is not expected to release its high-speed VCOs in the market "anytime soon," he said.