GALLIUM CHIPS! IS INTEL WORKING ON GALLIUM?
It's been known for decades that Gallium performance FAR exceeds the chip potential of semiconducting Silicon. For example, Gallium digital switching voltages are many times lower than silicon. Thus, gallium chip power consumption might be reduced by 10 fold to 100 fold over silly silicon. That alone is such a huge deal that anyone (like Amd) pushing for 7nm is totally wasting their time. A gallium chip maker would completely blow away 5nm silicon chips in not only dramatically lower power consumption, but in many times higher clock speeds too.
It's very true that gallium is thousands of times more rare that cheap silicon. But now that chips are so many many times physically smaller than long ago, very much less gallium is now needed to make the entire world's chips. Gallium IS now cost effective, and much more attractive. Chip shrinks are the wrong focus. Gallium is the correct focus for many reasons. In fact, gallium chips could skyrocket chip prices back to thousands per chip like the old days. With silicon, Amd would be left with very very low end bankruptcy junk.
So, with so much shear money at intel ($3B PROFIT PER QTR), I have a very very hard time even imagining no deadly serious Gallium R&D at intel. I know of many scientific efforts toward gallium chips. Don't tell me that intel is not working on gallium! The prize is a $400B chip dominance for the gallium chip winner.
And that "winner" is absolutely NOT backward little anti American Amd! Amd is the next chip penny stock. There are too many easy ways for intel to crush Amd with a few strokes of a pen.
Most of you Amd gullible segarro don't know hardly anything going on at intel. For example, in enterprise chip terms, intel is being heavily funded to make 1000mm WAFER SIZE computer chips operating at near absolute zero temperatures that can replace entire computer farms and at mind bloggling clocks. Do ya really think that phenomenal gallium is being ignored? Bank on one Amd fact. Amd probably has no clue of gallium's potential. And Amd is flat broke too.
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