Motorola to boost 0.13µ PowerPCs with low-k dielectrics

[jd997uk]

Motorola PPC Speed boost
Speculation that Motorola may soon cease to be a supplier of processors to Apple may be premature. The chip maker yesterday said it had successfully implemented low-k dielectric materials in its 0.18 micron silicon-on-insulator (SOI) processors, bringing an estimated 20 per cent speed bump to the PowerPC line.

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[KennyR]

Does anyone know what k stands for in this context? Conductance?

[jd997uk]

k = dielectric constant

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-john

[KennyR]

Thanks. :-)