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    The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size of a postage stamp, but nanoscale computing may soon make that achievement look elephantine, say some of the stars of information technology.

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    Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic semiconductor recipes to make sure that it stays that way.

  • AMD opens the transistor gates

    Advanced Micro Devices has created new high-performance transistors in its labs based on the simple concept that sometimes two are better than one.

  • Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon

    Intel will try to further cut power consumption in its next generation of chips by using improved strained silicon, along with transistors that block power to other circuits, and other added features.

  • "Strained silicon" pumps up chips

    Processor powerhouses IBM and Intel are set to reveal their plans to use the "strained silicon" technique to build faster, power-efficient chips--and maybe break free of Moore's Law.

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