IBM/Intel Slugfest Just Beginning

Big Blue has announced to the industry that they have the technology to create a chipset 10 times faster than current processor speeds, and rival Chipzilla is telling the industry they have created a processor just 0.03 microns wide. The new chip from IBM, CMOS 9S, measures in at 0.13 microns wide, with the first generation appearing at the end of 2001. While Intel won't ship its new processors in that time frame, they are staged to blow the competition away.

IBM's new chipset compliments the recent announcement with Infineon, that reports a new magnetic RAM is in the works that will blow past current RAM speeds, all the while cutting power consumption. Set to arrive in the 2003/2004 timeframe, both the RAM and the CMOS 9S processor will take the market by storm.

Over-stepping, and possibly over-shadowing IBM's latest creation, Intel plans on unleashing its monster shortly thereafter, somewhere in the 2005 range, according to the Wall Street Journal. Using 400 million transistors, WSJ reports that the 0.03 micron processor will blaze at speeds up to 10GHz.

Intel will show a prototype of its new technology at the San Francisco devcon. The new processor is expected to retail in the vicinity of $1500 USD per chip.