What is in a Barton Core?

This is a very odd question. I am currently doing a chemistry project that is set to be completed in January of 2004. I am trying to find an emement, chemical, substance, alloy, etc. that conducts electricity BETTER than the products used in the AMD Barton Core. I have turned the internet upside down looking for something that will tell me what is in the Barton Core ... I have come up with nothing. So if anyone knows what it is made out of, or what kinds of metals and alloys it uses, a responce would be gold to me! Thanks!
-Jake

wow, you should be working with INTEL.

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Istopically sounds like the new Sun block of the day. Since it's purse silicon you should get one heck of a tan with that stuff.

The other material besides the metal (silver or copper) and silicon is whatever advanced material they are using for an insulator right now. Better insulation mean higher speeds, because you can make the whole thing smaller. I would look for the best insulator that can be spread as thin as possible.

But that's just me.

The AMD Barton core is just the name AMD gave to their newest CPU. The materials used in it are exactly the same as in many other chips (this is not exactly true as there are more chip-technologies, but true enough for now).

A chip is made of chemically almost pure mono-crystalline silicium. 'Almost' is the key word here: silicon is a *semi* conductor which means that it conducts very poorly compared to real conductors (like copper, gold), but it conducts very well compared to insulators (like plastics, ceramics and silicon-oxide). Pure silicon is a very poor conductor, but you can make it to conduct much better by polluting it with small quantities (very small, much less than 1 percent) of other elements. Still many materials (especially metals and alloys) conduct far better than silicium.

The chip-production process involves polluting the silicium crystal at exactly the right spots, oxidizing it at other spots where you need an insulator, or putting a metal on it where you need a conductor. (I believe the metal used mostly is aluminum) The process of putting all these materials on the right spots is called photolitography. Actually only one side of the chip is being processed.

Now this chip is glued onto a substrate (this could be anything: glass, ceramics, plastics, metal), epoxy-resin in the case of the Barton CPU. This substrate contains the metal pins which connects the chip to the outside world. In earlier days the chip was then connected to the pins by welding very thin golden threads from the pins to the chip; nowadays the chip is placed directly on a contact-area where tiny metal balls provide the contact between chip and contact area.

Now an answer for your question:
any superconductor will conduct better than a barton core.
most metals and alloys will conduct better than the silicium used in the barton core.
Any conductor or semi conductor will conduct better than silicium-oxide.
Aluminum (used in the chip as conductor) will be outperformed by copper, which will be outperformed by silver, which will be outperformed by gold.

As for the pins: these are made of a very good conductor, sometimes alloys, or gold-plated to avoid oxidation.

You may check the "Handbook of Chemistry and Phyisics" for the exact conductivity of these materials.

i have heard both...

whichever is better i think that both are probably pretty close...



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silver conducts heat better then gold...so you shot yourself in the foot with that remark...

BTW...thats such BS...if a car has a radiator...it does not need much more cooling...its just bling bling...


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What I find even more intriguing is that aluminum is 4th

The loving are the daring!

There are three ways to measure conductivity.
1. By size
2. By weight
3. By cost
Maybe thats why?

Thermal conductivity of common materials:

Silver 430 W·m-1·K-1
Copper 390
Gold 320
Aluminium 236
Platinum 70
Quartz 8
Glass 1
Water 0.6
Wool 0.05
Expanded polystyrene ("Styrofoam" ) 0.03

Perfect example why styrofoam is a much better insulator for thermal beverages than glass. By the way, what is the minum thermal conductivity of a substance to be consiered an insulator?

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LOL styrofoam is a good insulator because air is a good insulator. Best insulator is a vacuum, good thermos.