Posted 05/15/2009 at 08:46:04am

The manufacturing tech (i.e. 45nm) refers to how small the transistors can be etched onto the die, it does not have anything to do with die size itself.  As the manufacturing tech shrinks, more powerful processors can be crammed into the same space, and older processors can be shrunk for better cooling/clock speed.  

Hence these old Pentium based cores are all very tiny at 45nm, since they were originally 250nm or so, and clock much higher.     

Posted 04/09/2009 at 07:42:31am

Folding for team 11108 is the shiz.  All the cool kids do it.  If you want to be a cool kid too, just start folding and everyone will like you more, since you'll exude that cool kid freshness.

Posted 04/07/2009 at 12:00:17pm

The die shot ruins them.  They would look much sleeker if that whole corner was just removed. 

Posted 01/18/2009 at 04:48:31pm

The Tom's article is refering to France's deployment of fiber lines, which is apparently is at a standstill due to various issues, not fiber optics itself.  Tom's translates many of their articles from other country's, so sometimes US irrelevancies slip in.