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IBM & Intel working on new generation fast chips
New York: International Business
Machines (IBM) has said that it has started production of powerful new microchips for
computer servers and communications equipment. IBM's new technology, named CMOS 9S, for
the first time, unites IBM innovations in copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator transistors
and improved, "low-k dielectric" insulation to build chip circuits as small as
0.13 microns, or nearly 800 times thinner than a human hair.
A variety of chips are already in pilot
production using IBM's new manufacturing technique, with first customer shipments planned
for early 2001. The new manufacturing technique would be used to produce future
generations of the IBM Power4 processor, which would ship in a new IBM eServer next year.
The California-based semiconductor major- Intel too has announced that it has developed a
prototype of a transistor that is just 0.03 microns wide compared with 0.13 for most
transistors today. This could enable chips that have 400 million transistors and run at
speeds as fast as 10 gigahertz. The California-based semiconductor giant has said its new
technology would enable the creation of $1,500 computers that operate at 10 billion cycles
a second (10 gigahertz), power that is comparable to mainframe machines that cost millions
of dollars.
The Pentium 4 processors, by contrast,
contain 42 million transistors and run at 1.5 gigahertz.
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Language IT market to
touch Rs 10,000 crore in 2001
Mumbai: With increased information
technology spending by the state governments, Indian language software and hardware market
is slated to touch Rs 10,000 crore by 2001, Mr. Devang Mehta president, Nasscom has said.
The world over non-English IT market is
growing rapidly and Indian languages, including He said the rising IT spending for
e-governance by state governments in local languages was growing rapidly and the language
software market would grow from current Rs 100 crore to Rs 250 crore by end 2001.
Language software companies should tie up with hardware manufacturers, especially
printers, to capture large share of market in the country, Mr Mehta has said.
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