[mythtv-users] This is Interesting

Johnny jarpublic at gmail.com
Tue Aug 11 17:16:22 UTC 2009


>>> Speculative, and very interesting. Although I do wonder exactly how he
>>> expects to achieve an 11nm width process....I thought 45nm was the limit due
>>> to to wavelength limits.
>>
>
> Intel plans to produce 32nm chips before the end of the year. Also
> Intel, IBM, AMD and others have demoed transistors at 22nm.

However, they will be running into serious problems soon because
silicon atoms are spaced about 1/2 a nanometer apart in silicon
crystals. So as they go into the single digit nanometer processes they
will be getting really close to basically manipulating individual
atoms.


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