Looks like Theo Valich needs a geometry refresher course.

[Keysplayr]

60 degrees huh?
Sure looks like 45 to me.

And Layers of silicon? I wasn't aware that "stacking" technology had come around for Cores.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't current CPU's GPU's limited to ONE layer of transistors?

 

[JAG87]

what else is new...
dont make pointless threads about pointless articles about pointless people.

 

[Wreckage]

You forgot to use the "inq" tag ----> :roll:

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: JAG87
what else is new...
dont make pointless threads about pointless articles about pointless people.

LOL, you made just about as much effort to tell me not to post this stuff as I did posting it.
Don't waste my time. Just wanted to show how inaccurate the INQ can be with something as blatant as this. Just imagine how much other stuff they get wrong.

 

[Acanthus]

Chips do have more than one layer of silicon, they dont have more than one layer of transistors, just to clarify.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Chips do have more than one layer of silicon, they dont have more than one layer of transistors, just to clarify.

That's what I thought too. Thanks.

 

[rgreen83]

i think maybe we all are not silicon logic design engineers, it was my understanding that there was only one layer of silicon, then each "layer" of the logic chip is then laid upon it by chemical deposition and a mask. While the 60 degree comment is a silly mistake, hardly an earth-shattering one, and i believe his comment on metal layers to be at least valid, if possibly not accurate. I'm fairly certain that the x2's and c2d's are using somewhere between 7 and 9 copper layers currently.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: rgreen83
i think maybe we all are not silicon logic design engineers, it was my understanding that there was only one layer of silicon, then each "layer" of the logic chip is then laid upon it by chemical deposition and a mask. While the 60 degree comment is a silly mistake, hardly an earth-shattering one, and i believe his comment on metal layers to be at least valid, if possibly not accurate. I'm fairly certain that the x2's and c2d's are using somewhere between 7 and 9 copper layers currently.

And the copper layers have nothing to do with transistors.