Look for more price cuts this month as these two competitors try to cut each other s throat. May. Some of it is rather dry, like most shareholders meeting, but there is some very interesting material, including a new processor roadmap starting about half way through the web cast. Intel s Annual report with Intel s vision for the future is available here . The first is news of IBM s development of carbon nanotube transistor technology. Nanotubes are a derivatives the buckyballs that were in the news a few years ago, which are spherical crystals of 60 carbon atoms with rather new and interesting properties.
Nanotubes are tiny cylinders of carbon atoms.
IBM scientists have made the first array of transistors out of carbon nanotubes. They are as small as 10 atoms across and 500 times smaller than today s silicon-based transistors. More info is available on IBM s site . The other item may have an even a greater impact. That is, the demonstration of metamaterials by researches at the University of California, San Diego.