"We must use a light source with a wavelength short enough to allow the minimum feature size on a chip to go down to possibly as low as 12 nanometers," Richardson said. The current industry standard for semiconductor production is approximately 65 nanometers. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter; a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.
I wonder if thats 20lb or glossy paper ?
Richardson will be presenting results of his collaboration with Powerlase at the 5th International EUV Lithography Symposium Oct. 15 to 19 in Barcelona, Spain.
Josets neck of the woods, globally speaking. I wonder if he's packing his luggage to go ?
“But if this research is successful, it could make computers with wireless semi-conductors a possibility within five or ten years of the end of the project. Then computers could be made anything from 200 to 500 times quicker and still be the same size.
In the manufacture of today’s integrated circuits there is no room for error, and so manufacturers must spend large amounts of money to build dust-free clean rooms. The advantage of the new more flexible system is that only 95 per cent or so of the electronic components would need to work for the chip to work properly. Such chips would be many times cheaper to produce.
The IBM story intrigues me, I just hope it isn't another NetBurst fiasco. But hopefully Power6 will work well with serial processor designs.
The IBM story intrigued me as well. I am not sure as to the full reason why Mac switched to Intel or if they will consider adding PowerPC to thier lineup again.
Apple's G and PowerPC series processors weren't as efficient as Core and Core 2. That explains why Apple never put G5s in their laptops, they were too power hungry. Intel processors also allowed boot camp to run, which allowed Windows XP to run on a Mac. I feel the switch to Intel was an important step away from Mac's historically proprietary products.
Thanks DJplanet
I didnt really follow the changeover that close and wasn't sure if it was just a hot headed Jobs things or if it actually had alot more benefits to change.
