Today AMD announced it has released the Chic 6ghz Cpu, it is claimed to be the worlds first cpu that doesnt use silicon, instead it made from chicken feathers and droppings.

Expect to see that story in a couple of years

Can you smell that chip burning up, smells like KFC

Nah, more like that new AMD Cpu made from chicken droppings.

If you think that this a Cpu based on chicken is a joke, it is but here is the full story.

In late June, a chemical engineer from the University of Delaware filed a patent that described a new generation of microchips. The patent proposes to replace silicon -- which has long served as the basis for microchips -- with another material. And what might this mystery component be? Chicken feathers.

More details on this news report here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6-2002Jul7.html

Good story Ian, thanks.