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>A NEW BEGINNING: THE AGE OF GIGAHERTZ CHIPS > >In the second half of this year both IBM and Intel plan to begin producing >complete microprocessors with processing cycles of a billion times a second >(a gigahertz). At first, they will probably be used in Web servers, and then >in voice recognition and video systems. Randall D. Isaac of IBM says, "The >message here is a simple one. The gigahertz era has arrived, and it looks >like we have room to move up to the 3 or 4 gigahertz range very rapidly. >Everyone talked about these limits, the end of Moore's Law, everything was >going to slow down. But everything seems to be speeding up. The pace is just >breathtaking." And Albert Yu of Intel explains that the gigahertz chip is >just the very beginning of a completely new era: "Silicon, from a technical >point of view, basically has no limitations down to the atomic level, and >we're still far away from the atomic level." (New York Times 7 Feb 2000) > >http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/02/biztech/articles/07chip.html >http://www.newsscan.com/ janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0