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Technology Stocks : Texas Instruments - Good buy now or should we wait? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SteveG who wrote (2326)	12/4/1997 11:07:00 AM
From: SteveG	Respond to of 6180

<A> Texas Instruments - Chips -3: Allows Smaller, Powerful Chips Texas Instrument's prototype chip that uses a combination of copper wiring and xerogel insulating material will allow smaller and more powerful chips. The combination of materials allows electrical signals to flow more freely throughout a chip, reducing electrical resistance and capacitance effects. The company believes chips with this technology will be more reliable and energy efficient. Future generation microprocessors and digital signal processors using this technology will be the size of a fingernail and incorporate circuitry as small as 0.10 of a micron with more than 500 million transistors. The boosted energy efficiency and smaller size will benefit new generations of portable electronics. Xerogel, an ultra low-k dielectric material, is made of microscopic glass bubbles containing air, which serves as an insulator. As each generation of chips gets smaller, these devices are becoming so small and so close together that the interconnects or wire connections between transistors can slow the flow of electrical signals between the wires, severely degrading chip performance. Texas Instruments, Dallas, develops digital signal processing solutions.