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3D super chips promise ten-fold speed bump

If his plans are successful, the inventor of flash memory is just a few steps away from delivering three-dimensional semiconductors that will give us processing chips running at ten times the speed of current-generation designs.

Fujio Masuoka, CTO of Unisantis Electronics in Japan, has announced a deal to work on his 3D chip designs with Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics to take advantage of the island nation's government facilities and specialists.

All of which means we could soon be using CPUs that make current cutting-edge architecture like the Cell look like a horse-drawn cart.

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Multigamer - 751 days 23 hours ago

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jesus, the cell will be obsolete within a year, thats nuts

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ruibing - 751 days 21 hours ago

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Umm I think it applies for ALL x86 processors. And you should consider the complexity of programming for a chip like this.

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Saint Sony - 751 days 19 hours ago

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Yeah great thing, but it will surely take more than 1 year to see them in production and IN products like consoles.

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emaddox84 - 751 days 18 hours ago

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The complexity would be the same, actually. 3d chips are simply 3d versions of the traditional flat chip. Instead of circuitry only going across a flat surface, the circuitry also goes up and down different levels, like a multistory building I suppose. This allows for shorter distances between two points, that is the advantage as electronic signals reach their destination much faster. The main problem with such a chip, however, is the heat dissipation.

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nirwanda - 751 days 13 hours ago

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Interesting what you said about the cooling it got me thinking that he's going to start with a simple two tier processor you can build from either side and cool from both sides the distance saved in die size would mean less power needed and less heat and more speed and easy to mass produce

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predator - 751 days 23 hours ago

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one word - wow

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OmegaKulu - 751 days 23 hours ago

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Cool, but this will take years before it's actually out on the market(if it can make that far first).

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predator - 751 days 22 hours ago

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not that long according to the article

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nanometric - 751 days 23 hours ago

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I bet the samsung console will be with this!

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Multigamer - 751 days 22 hours ago

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i doubt it

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Polluted - 751 days 22 hours ago

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Sounds neat, but 6 months ago the next big thing was supposed to be quantum computing. How you can perform complex calculations by measuring the spinning velocity of an electron is beyond me, but apparently it works. The point being someone's always got an idea for some sort of processor that's going to blow the old x86 architecture out of the water. Hasn't happened yet. It's been what? 20 years? I'm all for new tech, but I'll believe this when I see it.

Anyone else notice that they chose "horse-drawn-cart" for a hotlink in this post?

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predator - 751 days 22 hours ago

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lol. anyway back to the article, i agree with you, but evryday someone says they have new technology thats goign to blow the socks of the nearest thing.

problem is as soon as new tech is released it becomes obsolete a day later

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emaddox84 - 751 days 18 hours ago

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As a computer science grad, I can tell you that the idea of 3d chips has been around for awhile. It is a much more practical approach to increase cpu performances than quantum computing. The difference is, quantum computing is a lot of theory as of now, while 3d chips is simply an improvement over current chips to allow shorter distances between two gates on a chip. Quantum computing would require a complete overhaul to the way we approach computers and programming. When people hear "3d chips" they probably marvel in the idea, but it's simply like having a 5 story building instead of a really long 1 story building. It will most likely take less time to go up a floor or 2 to get to your destination than to walk the whole distance of a 1 story building.

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mighty_douche - 751 days 22 hours ago

6 - 10 times?

optimistic at best.

still inventing new Computer hardware is hard, getting it down to a reasonable price point is harder!

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predator - 751 days 21 hours ago

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tech price will never be good

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emaddox84 - 751 days 18 hours ago

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I can see 10 times because as the chip size increases, the distance between two gates on a chip would exponentially increase on a flat chip compared to a 3 dimensional chip. It's just simple geometry.

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Marty8370 - 751 days 21 hours ago

7 - These Chips are a good two years off yet.

Can any of you guys read. This will not be happening any time soon, it's a good two years off at least. 'Cell' by then would also be beefed up alot, clocked faster with even more SPU's.

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He hopes that - within two years - the resulting 3D semiconductors will replace flat chip circuits to create processors that are ten times faster than current chips of the same size.

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nirwanda - 751 days 20 hours ago

8 - sounds tough to mass produce

if the chips 3d it can't just be assembled quickly for the mainsream and you still need the bandwidth around the motherboard if you want to make a cpu out of it would make a good GPU I bet though

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AIZEN SOZUKE - 751 days 18 hours ago

10 - what level of visual 3d output are these chips capable of?

is it movie farm rendering like cell? if not, then i dont know what ten fold speed boost it will have over cell, cause the cell in ps3 is still growing, so this post is bull

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GodsHand - 751 days 16 hours ago

11 - I would love to see this in a laptop.

When this thing come out, you will have a successor already to replace it.

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