UnNews:Company that packs transistors onto tiny chips pledges to pack more transistors into same size chips
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19 July 2008
SANTA CLARA — This week, chip-maker Intel pledged to pack 80 times more transistors into its chips by 2011. The California-based chip giant announced Monday that it had developed a prototype chip that is 80 times larger, yet holds 80 times more transistors than its current upper-end product, the Celeron D.
A spokesperson commented while holding a handful of the 45 nanometer electrical components in his hand, "The difficulty is not physically getting the transistors inside of the chips, but figuring out how to use the chips once we've done that. We are facing more challenges than ever trying to get all that silicon to do something, even if it's nothing at all." He later added, "Microsoft has been a major partner in our endeavors."
 It's not about obsoleting our youth with toxic dust painstakenly etched between layers of metal, it's about increasing productivity. 
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Intel engineers then held up a wafer the size of a dinner plate and demonstrated it solving a differential equation within seconds, something most college students couldn't even do in half an hour.
"It's not about obsoleting our youth with toxic dust painstakenly etched between layers of metal, it's about increasing productivity," said Intel chairman Craig Barrett. He discussed how hardware advances have given students, as well as all technologically privileged people, a competitive edge in all spheres of labor, education, and gaming. "Kids are actually getting their work done."
Intel's earliest processors only used ten elements of the periodic table. Current Intel processors use over half of the periodic table [1]. Intel plans to integrate all of the radioactive elements into its designs by 2015.