CHIP SPEED BREAKTHROUGH BY INTEL AND ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC.Intel Corp. of Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , CA, has announced that it has designed a microprocessor microprocessor, integrated circuit containing the arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry required to interpret and execute instructions from a computer program. that runs at the speed of 1 gigahertz One billion cycles per second. See GHz. (unit) GigaHertz - (GHz) Billions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. (1 billion cycles a second). It is expected that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ) of Sunnyvale has made an identical announcement at the same time. Intel and AMD are the two largest makers of microprocessor for PCs and will make their announcements at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . At present, the fastest chips currently manufactured have a speed of 800 megahertzs, and the new chips are scheduled to be available by the end of the year 2000. Intel Will Provide Flash Chips for Ericsson Intel Corp. and Swedish company Ericsson, have contracted for Intel to provide 1.5 billion in flash-memory chips over the next 3 years for Ericsson's use in the fast growing cellular telephone market. Flash-memory chips are an increasingly essential component to mobile telephones, hand held organizers, digital cameras, and will be essential to the use of mobile phones in accessing the Internet. Flash chips, unlike standard memory chips, store data even when a phone or computer is turned off. |
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