Sunday, November 28, 2010

CMOSAIC project with ETH Zurich and EPFL

CMOSAIC project with ETH Zurich and EPFL

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A new technology for stacking several layers of microprocesssors, which is being developed at IBM Research - Zurich, to be used in the CMOSAIC project with ETH Zurich and EPFL. IBM scientists believe the design can boost the performance of computer chips by a factor 10. The team estimates that the first 3D chips will be implemented in supercomputers by 2015 with a novel internal cooling system fully operational by 2020, for even further improvements.

A sugar cubes are used for size comparison.

Photo credit Michael Lowry

IMAGE and TEXT CREDIT: By IBM Research - Zurich © Copyright All Rights Reserved.

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