{"id":4548,"date":"2006-06-12T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T10:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/moores-law.html"},"modified":"2006-06-12T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T10:13:30","slug":"moores-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/moores-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Moore\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/news\/article\/0,aid,126044,00.asp\"><font color=\"#800080\">news<\/font><\/a> from Intel for fans of Moore&rsquo;s Law &#8212; Researchers have found a way to cut chip power consumption by 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Using tri-gate transistors is the key.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Compared to carbon nanotubes, it is far easier to build,&quot; said Mike Mayberry, director of components research and vice president of Intel&#8217;s Technology and Manufacturing Group. &quot;The problem with carbon nanotubes is that no one knows how to put them in a particular spot except by moving them one at a time. Even our smallest chips have millions of transistors, so that is an insurmountable challenge, he continued.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A tri-gate transistor is a component in the standard CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) design, but acts as a better &quot;traffic cop&quot; to control the flow of electrons, surrounding each wire on three sides instead of just one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from Intel for fans of Moore&rsquo;s Law &#8212; Researchers have found a way to cut chip power consumption by 35 percent. Using tri-gate transistors is the key. &quot;Compared to carbon nanotubes, it is far easier to build,&quot; said Mike Mayberry, director of components research and vice president of Intel&#8217;s Technology and Manufacturing Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[1125,564,1223,1224,1225],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}