Engadget - Comments for Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/ Engadget Comments for Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:07PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:31PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 12:53AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 4:44AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 9:43PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:08PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 10:22PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 12:12AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:14PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:25PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 10:14PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 10:27PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 10:46PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/
(Penryn > Nehalem > Westmere > Sandy Bridge)

"Intel's plans are to introduce new microarchitectures every two years, so this processor should debut in 2010. In keeping with its tick-tock principle, the 22 nm shrink of Sandy Bridge is due out in 2011.

According to a presentation made by Intel in December 2006, Sandy Bridge is planned to run at 4 GHz and feature 4 to 8 cores. Sandy Bridge may possibly feature up to 32 cores. Sandy Bridge will also feature 32 KB L1 cache/core, 512 KB L2 cache/core, and 2-3 MB L3 cache (most likely shared, but it may be per core). Other features include 64 GB/s memory bandwidth and a 17 GB/s QuickPath link. The presentation also mentions that Sandy Bridge will be capable of up to 28 GFLOPS/core, which would give a total of 112-224 GFLOPS/processor."

No wonder AMD is getting the crap kicked out of them when Intel is working four iterations ahead of current technologies.]]>Dec 16th 2007 11:43PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:44PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:54PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/
Either that or someone would have invented something 10 times better and I would be 10 times happier...]]>Dec 16th 2007 9:52PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 7:29AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/
Maybe they should just invent something 10x faster now...]]>Dec 17th 2007 9:04AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 9:57PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Jan 4th 2008 2:55PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 10:38PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Lol.
Kids in the backseat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids.]]>Dec 17th 2007 5:30PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 11:09PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 11:44PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 11:09PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 3:26AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 16th 2007 11:27PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.appliedmaterials.com/htmat/animated.html]]>Dec 16th 2007 11:49PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 12:13AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 1:44AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Anyways, Happy B'Day!]]>Dec 17th 2007 2:13AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 2:23AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/The device pictured is the Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) which is the first mass produced solid-state transistor. The Field Effect Transistor (FET), which is what's in all our shiny devices, was patented about 25 years before the BJT, but it was not widely used until after the success of the BJT because the BJT was easier to produce.]]>Dec 17th 2007 3:05AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley had built operational versions from Lilienfeld's patents, yet they never referenced this work...

That sounds a bit different, huh?
Honor to whom honor is due!]]>Dec 17th 2007 4:00AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 18th 2007 5:55AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 8:43AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 9:11AM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 12:29PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 5:24PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 17th 2007 5:33PM<![CDATA[Comments on Sixty years ago today: transistors -- and modern electronics -- were born]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/16/sixty-years-ago-today-the-transistor-and-modern-electronics/Dec 18th 2007 6:03AM