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• AMD revs up transistor designs

  Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.

• 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.

• IBM feels the need for speed

  Big Blue is working on a new type of transistor that it says will vastly increase performance and reduce power consumption of chips in the coming decade.

• Intel shows test chips made on future processes

  Moore's Law is on track, the chipmaker says, and it shows off 45-nanometer creations to prove it.

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• Intel unfurls experimental 3D transistors

  Intel plans to unveil more details behind its Tri-Gate transistor, an experimental circuit that could be important in the company's quest to keep up with Moore's Law.

• Double-gate chip stops power leakage

  IBM scientists have made a working RAM chip with two gates for conducting electricity, but problems remain in developing a manufacturing process.

• Intel's Mr. Chips takes final bow

  Before leaving his post as CEO, Intel's Craig Barrett wants to make a few things perfectly clear.

• Intel hastily redraws road maps

  The chipmaker has redrawn its product plans for 2005, shelving two chips and announcing vague plans about the processors that will come out next year.

• Breaking chip barriers

  HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.

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• AMD revs up transistor designs

  Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.

• Intel experiments with 3D transistors

  Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up.

• IBM bakes new 3D circuit design

  IBM says building better microchips is kind of like baking a cake.

• Sony sinks US$1.6 billion into 'Cell' plant

  More details emerge about the highly secretive "Cell" processor, which is slated to power the upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 game console.

• Breaking chip barriers

  HP Labs is leading a project to find new ways to boost silicon-based memory and processor technology far beyond its current limits.

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