HP Develops New Chip Technology

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Company researchers describe a method that will allow more transistors on a chip, leading to faster computing and lower power use.

Hewlett-Packard researchers may have figured out a way to prolong Moore's Law by making chips more powerful and less power-hungry.

Today HP Labs said it created a method of using a "crossbar switch" that more efficiently routes signals inside a common kind of chip called an FPGA (field programmable gate array). The technology could lead to the creation of chips packed with far more transistors on board, leading to faster computing times.

HP calls its new technology field programmable nanowire interconnect (FPNI). The lab hopes to make a prototype chip using the technology within a year, and HP believes it could produce chips that contain a 15-nanometer crossbar by 2010.

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every time they created some faster and faster. How fast the prossesor of to be before they are satisfied?

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Re: HP Develops New Chip Technology

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DuppyBredda</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
How fast the prossesor of to be before they are satisfied? </div></div>

Never. Faster is always good, even if the average human don't notice the difference. There are always other uses for a faster processor, specifically in science and technology applications.