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Title: Motorola to boost 0.13µ PowerPCs with low-k dielectrics
Post by: jd997uk on June 03, 2003, 12:05:42 PM

Motorola PPC Speed boost (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30993.html)
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.

Click the above link for more info.

Title: Re: Motorola to boost 0.13µ PowerPCs with low-k dielectrics
Post by: KennyR on June 03, 2003, 04:02:55 PM

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

Title: Re: Motorola to boost 0.13µ PowerPCs with low-k dielectrics
Post by: jd997uk on June 03, 2003, 04:36:27 PM

k = dielectric constant

For more tech info try here. (http://www.e-insite.net/semiconductor/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA164243)

-john

Title: Re: Motorola to boost 0.13µ PowerPCs with low-k dielectrics
Post by: KennyR on June 03, 2003, 11:07:11 PM

Thanks. :-)