Reviewed on October 28, 2007The CPU market is due for a lot of upheaval over the next 12 months, so you might be wise to wait for a clearer picture before plunking down $1,000 or so on Intel's new Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core desktop processor. But if you want to claim ownership of the fastest multicore CPU around today, look no further.TAGS:Intel Core 2 Extreme, transistor, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel, digital media, quad-core, CPU
December 8, 2006MIT, among others, is working with new composite materials it hopes will be able to reliably outpace the conducting speed of silicon.TAGS:transistor, silicon, material, professor, Apple iPod, Intel
December 12, 2006Company will present a paper this week outlining a new type of memory that could help boost processor performance.TAGS:transistor, cell, cache memory, gate, SRAM, Intel, memory
November 30, 2006The company is in the midst of making the first samples of the 45-nanometer chip, expected to come out toward the end of next year.TAGS:manufacturing, transistor, Intel, AMD, design
December 14, 2007The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors TAGS:transistor, AT&T Bell Laboratories, manufacturing, signal, 3D, Intel
December 13, 2004Chip performance is being improved by pulling silicon atoms apart, and in some cases pushing them closer together.TAGS:transistor, silicon, AMD, IBM Corp., DSL, Intel
March 3, 2005In its 31-year history, Columbia University's Marconi Foundation has handed out only two Lifetime Achievement Awards. Make that three.TAGS:Marconi, transistor, Nobel prize, foundation, electronics, Intel