Super-fast Transistors On the Way

nbannerman writes "The BBC is reporting about a new kind of transistor, that recently set a world record of 110Ghz. From the article: 'To achieve the speed gain, researchers at the University of Southampton added fluorine to the silicon devices. The technique uses existing silicon manufacturing technology meaning it should be quick and easy to deploy.' The apparent applications for this process include mobile phones and digital cameras."

Mobile Phones?

[terminateprocess]

Now remind me why exactly we need 110GhZ moblie phone processors?

As an added benefit...

[nebaz]

added fluorine to the silicon devices

Not only will the transistors be faster, but whiter and shinier, they won't need to floss.

Re:Mobile Phones?

[BSonline]

Because faster is better. Don't you remember high school cheerleaders?

Mobile Phones?-PADs

[Anonymous Coward]

"Now remind me why exactly we need 110GhZ moblie phone processors?"

So the future will get here faster.

But use of such mobile phones and cameras...

[Anonymous Coward]

...might taint your precious bodily fluids.

Real-world benefits?

[FlyByPC]

...so this means that Flight Simulator X will run at 10fps instead of 5?

Re:These are bipolar devices

[NotQuiteReal]

Couldn't they add some Lithium too?

Re:Mobile Phones?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that you posted the misinformation, Microsoft will raise their system requirements beyond what processors are capa.....

On second thought, post all kinds of misinformation like this, then Microsoft will spec themselves out of business. ;)

Call General Jack D. Ripper on this one...

[Cade144]

This sounds like a plot to sap our vitality by adding Flourine to impurify our sacred bodily fluids ^H^H^H^H^H transistors.
Oh, for those who have never seen it, the silly reference [wikipedia.org] is from Dr. Strangeglove [imdb.com].

Mod the parent upwards!

[Anonymous Coward]

So the future will get here faster.

Precisely! We agree completely.

Signed,
SACFTF
Slashdot Anonymous Cowards For The Future

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Listen you "big A-C" Anonymous Cowards, we're against the future. Technology ruined our lives, remember when trolls used to live under bridges? Now we live in basements or apartments. We should go backwards, not forwards!

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Slashdot Anonymous Cowards Against The Future.

Re:Mobile Phones?-PADs

[telchine]

I keep waiting for the future to come, but all I ever see is the present.

Floride in children's ice cream?

[cpopin]

Ripper: A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie works. Mandrake: Jack... Jack, listen, tell me, ah... when did you first become, well, develop this theory. Ripper: Well, I ah, I-I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love. From Dr. Strangelove [twinisles.com]

Re:Faster?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

It's cheaper to pay a few top engineers to make faster hardware then to pay a mountain of top computer scientists to write stable, fast code.

Yeah, because if the cpu is fast enough, even unstable code works better!

Re:Faster?

[sjwt]

Due to economic downsizing, you now have a choice of 'pick one, so long as its fast'

That's right

[roman_mir]

because if the CPU is fast enough then the software just won't have any time to fail, because it will be very occupied trying to not fall behind the processor. All of the software failures are due to high stress that software is experiencing and the faster the computers are the less time there is for the software to stress, thus it doesn't think about being bloated with all that dead weight and terrible algorythms that much and doesn't get depressed that easily.

Re:Mobile Phones?

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be new here... nobody here got that close to a cheerleader in high school.

Re:MOSFET Application

[dcapel]

Truely now, how many people modded this insightful because they didn't understand it?

Re:Bi-polar not CMOS

[Ig0r]

"Bipolar trannies" sound very scary.

Re:As an added benefit...

[lubricated]

they are both the same element. Just a slightly differenet amount of electrons. You really are nitpicking over a joke. Fluoride is still Flourine.

Re:Mobile Phones?

[ozmanjusri]

it's GHz not GhZ, you babboon.

It's baboon not babboon, you buffoon.