Intel shows chips can get thinner

Agreeing on a pay-off

By: BiodunIginla

Friday, November 13, 2009 Intel and AMD by Judith Stein and Biodun Iginla, Financial Analysts for the BBC and the Economist Nov

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World's First Microprocessor (1971): Intel 4004

By: hasnain

In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down -- in size that is. The ...

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Computers Will Stop Getting Faster in 75 Years

By: RaulDeSouza

Even Moore's Law has its limit. That's the much-cited dictum from Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that computer speed doubles every two years with ever-smaller and more powerful transistors. Two physicists crunched some numbers and found that the theory—which has held true for 40 years now—must eventually reach a "quantum limit," ...

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