1. Intel, NEC show diverging CPU paths.
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Merritt, Rick
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *COMPUTER industry , *ELECTRONICS - Abstract
The article discusses the papers presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott hotel in California. One of the papers considers the introduction of Intel Corp.'s Nehalem-EX server CPU, a 2.3 billion-transistor member of its 45-nm Nehalem family. Meanwhile, another paper shows the technique described by Hideaki Saito, a principal researcher at NEC Corp., for stacking a memory chip using direct aluminum-to-copper links.
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- 2009