| AMD sneaks strained silicon into chips
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Advanced Micro Devices has begun to incorporate a form of strained silicon into its chips, a design twist that will let the company increase the performance of its processors.
The strained silicon is being incorporated into all of AMD's 90-nanometer chips, which the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has just started shipping to PC makers. The technology also will be added to 130-nanometer chips that will be released this quarter, an AMD representative said Thursday. (The nanometer dimensions refer to average feature size on the chips. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.)
| http://news.com.com/AMD+sneaks+strai...l?tag=nefd.top
According to the article it's different from the technique used by Intel and IBM and can increase performance 10 percent to 25 percent! Whoohoo!
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