Strained Silicon Chips From Intel

Quirk writes "NewScientist is reporting... "Intel has taken the wraps off a secret technique it is using'Strained silicon' chips to increase the speed of its Pentium and Centrino chips. The technique boosts the rate at which transistors switch, without having to make them smaller.""

Strained silicon?!!?

[BWJones]

Shoot, I should tell you about strained silicon. That overclocking experiment I did a couple years ago went horribly wrong when the water pump failed and smoke started pouring out of the case. THAT was decidedly strained silicon. :-)

Future bad headlines for this technology

[Craig Maloney]

Intel sees chip futures strained
Intel strains to find new chips
Intel strains to make chips faster

etc... ad nauseum.

Hmm....

[Anonymous Coward]

Pulling on my processor with two pairs of pliers just bent a few of the pins and made it smoke a bit...

Re:Future bad headlines for this technology

[ozric99]

.... Apple introduces their fledgling product: iStrain.

And the competitors

[JanneM]

In a response, AMD announced development of "stressed silicon", while VIA reportedly has only managed to "get their silicon slightly worried", according to one unnamed source. China, meanwhile, announced a multi-million dollar project to have silicon going into hysterics within five years.

Strained....

[vudu]

Silicone? I was expecting a story about Pamela Anderson.

Damn.

That's nothing

[dus]

Microsoft has been stressing silicon, including Intel's, for many years!

World's Smallest

[DumbSwede]

Sure strained silicon is great, but the real advance was the world's smallest colander.

Re:Future bad headlines for this technology

[Walt Dismal]

You're all too late. Safeway carries Beechnut Strained Silicon, and babies love it. What scares me is Gerber Creamed Silicon with Spinach.