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To: Colin H who wrote (42578)9/29/2005 10:41:12 AM
From: regli  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
Well, changing the benchmarks is the only thing that even remotely keeps them competitive in the space. This is one desperate company.

However, reinterpreting Moore's law is just too much. What will that chart look like once they drop Itanium?



To: Colin H who wrote (42578)9/29/2005 4:14:46 PM
From: Real Man  Respond to of 110194
 
There is a real problem there - 65 nm is 650 Angstrom. 1 Angstrom
is the size of a typical atom, roughly speaking. The distance
between these is a few Angstrom, say, 3. Just number fluctuation
is a square root of that number, so smaller chips will be
increasingly inaccurate -g-