PC REPORT
Thursday, February 05, 1998
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IBM, Digital Promise 1GHZ Chips by 2000
How fast is fast? This week officials of both IBM and competitor Digital
Equipment Corporation announced plans to deliver 1000MHz computer
processors, also known as 1GHz CPUs, by the year 2000.
Digital's announcement was mostly vapor, but IBM demonstrated the real
thing. Engineers at IBM Research, in Austin, Texas, showed off the world's
first 1GHz microprocessor, a performance breakthrough that will make
computers three to five times faster than today's fastest systems.
IBM's experimental CMOS 6X processor runs at a clock speed of one billion
cycles per second, compared to the fastest Intel Pentium II processor,
which runs at 333 million cycles per second. IBM's CMOS 6X also only uses 1
million transistors, which makes it run cooler, compared to the Pentium
II's 7.5 million red hot transistors into the same chip footprint.
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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