Intel is claiming an advance in chip technology that involves the most significant change since it pioneered integrated circuits more than four decades ago, according to the Mercury News. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, 78, who observed Moore's Law,
came out of retirement -- he spends some of his time in Hawaii -- to issue a statement Friday about the Intel team's innovation. He said Intel's use of high-k and metal materials "marks the biggest change in transistor technology" since Intel's pioneering use of polysilicon in 1969.
It seems that IBM has been working with AMD on the same approach but is "still in the research phase," according to Yoshio Nishi, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
"It's a real breakthrough . . . for both of them," said Rick Doherty, research director of the Envisioneering Group in Seaford, N.Y. "I wouldn't be surprised if members of these teams were up for the Nobel Prize."
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