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Title: H-P Touts Advance in Chip Technology

Author: Clark, Don Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Wall Street Journal, v249 n12 pB5(1) Publication Date: Jan 16, 2007
  ISSN: 0193-2241
URL of Publication: http://www.wsj.com

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced a research breakthrough that can improve computer chips with techniques from nanotechnology, bringing big benefits in performance. HP's researchers say the approach can put eight-times the number of transistors onto a chip than is currently possible on various programmable chips, while also cutting energy consumption. HP's technique does not reduce the size of transistors, but instead uses refined nanowires. The most recent research was used to improve field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). FPGAs are easily programmed by makers of electronic products and are therefore very widely used. They are sometimes more expensive to make than other chips, in part because only about 20 percent of each chip is dedicated to transistors that carry out its primary functions. The rest of the chip is used for switches and wiring that connect the transistors. Stan Williams, senior fellow and director of quantum science research at the HP research laboratory, says Frankly we chose the target we could most easily improve.

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