Intel and IBM finally make a BIG breakthrough

[Larry_OHF]

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/27/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

This article says that not since the 60s have we seen any change in the use of silicon in transistors, but now they've developed a way to make smaller chips that lose less, use less, and conduct better electricity by the use of some metal called halfium. IBM is related to AMD, so I don't get how Intel shared the bed with IBM to get this developed at the same time...as the report says that they worked independent of one another, yet they are being named together in the report as though they were partners.
Anyway, check it out!

[ 01-27-2007, 10:38 AM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

[Dundee Slaytern]

Originally posted by Larry_OHF: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/27/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes This article says that not since the 60s have we seen any change in the use of silicon in transistors, but now they've developed a way to make smaller chips that lose less, use less, and conduct better electricity by the use of some metal called halfium. IBM is related to AMD, so I don't get how Intel shared the bed with IBM to get this developed at the same time...as the report says that they worked independent of one another, yet they are being named together in the report as though they were partners. Anyway, check it out!

Maybe they ended up spying on each other so much that their research overlapped.

Hehe.

[PurpleXVI]

Halfium?

Maybe you mean Hafnium?

[Bozos of Bones]

Most interesting and exciting to boot!
But what in the crapstickles is halfium? All I got so far is that it's a specially-designed(spherical) cristalline matrix of an already existing element, probably hydrogen. Now, I am a student of stuff like that, but this sentence here makes next to no sence to me:

"Rydberg and doubly-excited states of molecular hydrogen H2 are investigated with a fomalism combining the eigenchannel variational R-matrix method and the generalized multichannel quantum defect theory in prolate spheroidal coordinates (the halfium model). The key ab initio calculated quantities are the clamped nuclei short-range reaction matrices as functions of the excitation energy E and the internuclear distance R."

Much studying I must do, much studying...

[PurpleXVI]

Pretty sure it's Hafnium, a relatively normal metallic element. Just look it up in the Wikipedia or Google it, all signs point to Halfium being a typo or technobabble.

[Bozos of Bones]

Actually, Halfium would also fit, as it displays some peculiar magnetic and electric properties. But would require a tokamak, particle accelerator or laser based plasma processor [img]tongue.gif[/img]
But yeah, Hafnium is most likely it [img]tongue.gif[/img]

EDIT: Yep, just noticed that the article has been changed to sa Hafnium.

[ 01-27-2007, 12:05 PM: Message edited by: Bozos of Bones ]

[Hivetyrant]

Hmmm, I knew they had been working on this for a while, but i'm glad they are finally going to be producing chips with it, and even this year!...... apparently.

[PurpleXVI]

There's no element called Halfium.

On a Googling of Halfium, however, I note that it has the same letters(Hf) as Hafnium, so I imagine it's some wacky American misspelling like your odd idea of giving Natrium the name Sodium.

[Bozos of Bones]

I never said there is an element called Halfnium, i said it was a "specially-designed(spherical) cristalline matrix of an already existing element, probably hydrogen".
And yeah, why do they give elements such weird names? Aluminum, anyone?

[Larry_OHF]

How about that!? I misspelled something! What a fool I am...haha!