First Commercial Application Of Cold Fusion !!!
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>In my job, a number of press releases from semiconductor companies cross
>my desk. One which particularly caught my eye was from Intel, describing
>a new chip:
>"Based on Intel's 1.0-micron CHMOS* IIIE process technology, Intel's 85C220
>consumes less than one-third the power and dissipates 50 percent less heat
>than bipolar PALs*. Thus, with 80-MHz performance, the 85C220 can replace
>fast, bipolar PLDs--like "D" (55-MHz) and "E" (74-MHz) PALs--and 74-series
>LS and CMOS SSI/MSI logic devices for bus control and state machine
>applications."
>My God, this chip is generating excess heat! Why would Intel choose
>to make the announcement so quietly? Are they afraid their stock would
>drop because of the skeptical attitude of the technology-watchers and
>the "conventional wisdom"?
Naw. Obviously, they either blew the calorimetry or forgot to account
for the energy from recombination of charge carriers leaking in on the
signal wiring, or stored in the chip in the form of the smoke, and
released in bursts when they had them in the jig. (You did know that
the active element in ICs is smoke, didn't you? When it leaks out they
stop working.)
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>And what are they using cold-fusion for? Could it be that the intermediate
>vector in the fusion reaction has better mobility than the charge carriers
>in silicon?
That would work if they're using a fusion reaction as the switching event.
Of course, ballistic transport FETs would run faster if you used the fusion
reaction to accelerate the charge carriers to a few MEV, and optical
interconnection between gates using gamma pulses would also be fun.
B-)