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...IBM's Charlie Chaplin ads and Apple's "1984" ad are both available at the touch of a button...
...IBM'S DEEP BLUE Rare is the athlete who retires at the top of his/her/its game...
...metal and etched away everything they didn't want. What was left were microscopic paths of metal just wide enough to carry a current. But while chipmakers had developed any number of ways to etch aluminum, no one had yet figured out how to etch copper. Doing that, IBM suspected, would require inventing a whole new kind of chemistry. Doing that became something of a Holy Grail within the industry, says Drew Peck, a semiconductor analyst at Cowen...
They just got two. First, Intel, the world's largest semiconductor firm, announced that its engineers had discovered a Houdini-like trick for stuffing twice the quantity of digital information in the same physical space on a chip. Then last week IBM unveiled what may be an even more significant advance: its researchers had found a way to replace the aluminum conductors in their microprocessors with copper, which is cheaper and faster. Says IBM vice president John Kelly, who has been experimenting with copper chips since the 1980s: "This...
...cheap. The real breakthrough is that copper conductors will make it simpler to build much smaller chips. This is a big relief to chipmakers, who were, as the pessimists suspected, having a tough time pushing electrons through smaller and smaller aluminum conduits, which become less conductive as they shrink. IBM had been working patiently on the problem since scientists realized a decade ago that to move to the next level of miniaturization (to wiring .25 microns wide, about 400 times thinner than a human hair), they would need to abandon aluminum...