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5.2 GHz chip from IBM

Sheuli — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:24:09 +0000

IBM’s newest chip has 5.2 GHz clock, and it is one of the highest speed ratings. The new chip will go into Big Blue’s fastest mainframe computers.

The new 5.2GHz z196 processor is created mainly for businesses managing huge workloads, such as banks.

Atom N470 Processor from Intel

Sheuli — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:29:26 +0000

Intel is going to officially release on Monday the latest Atom N470 processor. A new processor from Intel will bring faster performance and longer battery life to netbooks. The N470 chip processor will run at a speed of 1.83GHz. All Atom chips from Intel go into small, low-cost laptops called netbooks. Netbooks are designed to surf the Web and run productivity applications.

The first chip from Atom family – the Atom N450, which runs at a speed of 1.66GHz can be found in netbooks priced between US$299 and $499.

World’s Fastest Graphene Transistor from IBM

Sheuli — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:53 +0000

IBM has created a graphene-based processor. It can execute 100 billion cycles per second (100GHz). It is four times the speed of previous experimental graphene chips. “That makes graphene a promising material for high-speed or high-frequency electronic components,” Lin (the IBM researcher who led the work) said.