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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

IBM develops speedier transistor - Yahoo! News: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - IBM has built a transistor that runs about 100 times faster than current chips, a development that could pave the way for ultra-fast computers and wireless networks, the computing giant said on Monday.

Transistors are the basic building blocks of the processors found in everything from supercomputers to digital music players, and IBM achieved the record speeds by building one from silicon laced with exotic chemical element germanium."

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