“IBM researchers will announce at the International Solid-State
Circuits Conference that they have developed a new family of
high-speed computer circuits that run at speeds of 3.3 to 4.5 GHz
(gigahertz), up to five times faster than today’s fastest
Pentium III chips.
The new design employs conventional silicon transistors, but
uses only half the power of a standard high-performance
chip.
‘Not only are we in the gigahertz era of microprocessors, but we
see our way clear to 3 to 4 GHz in the future,’ Randall Isaac, vice
president of systems, technology and science at IBM Research, said
in an interview.
‘1 GHz will be commercially available within one year, 3 and 4
GHz will take three to four years to be commercially
available.’ “
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