First Commercial Application Of Cold Fusion !!! 
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 First Commercial Application Of Cold Fusion !!!
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"?

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?

* CHMOS is an Intel trademark, PAL belongs to AMD now that they bought MMI
and are beating everybody else to death with lawsuits on patents covering
nearly every form of PLD chip.



Wed, 15 Jul 1992 12:18:57 GMT
 First Commercial Application Of Cold Fusion !!!

Quote:
>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.)

Quote:
>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-)



Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:56:15 GMT
 First Commercial Application Of Cold Fusion !!!

Quote:

>(You did know that
>the active element in ICs is smoke, didn't you?  When it leaks out they
>stop working.)

Sure.  And when you add mirrors, you get a solid-state laser.  ;-)

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Sun, 26 Jul 1992 04:05:49 GMT
 
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