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| Infineon Announces 3D Transistors That Take Half the Usual Amount of Power |
| Tuesday, 05 December 2006 05:19 |
Computers these days are taking more and more power to keep up with the world's increasing computing needs. One of the biggest culprits today is the processor (these days, the graphics card probably comes in first), and Infineon has announced a solution that will dramatically decrease the power consumption of transistor-based devices such as CPUs. Their new "3D transistors" claim to have the same functionality as standard transistors, but with right around 50% of the power consumption. Transistors lose most of their power through what are known as leakage currents. For those of you who have no idea what a transistor is, it's basically a sort of switch, where the voltage applied to the "gate" determines whether or not current can travel from the "drain" to the "source." Because of the physics behind transistors, a small amount of current can still "leak" through to the source even when there is no voltage on the gate, which means that the transistor is taking power that it doesn't need. This problem seems to be alleviated by Infineon's new transistors by having two gates between the drain and source. Only about half of the original leakage current is present; and, since there are two gates instead of just one, the possibilities arise for a single transistor to have more functionality than before. (The one in the picture above could very easily be used for an AND gate, for example.) Original article by TGDaily.
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