Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 08:46:11 12/16/02
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ASICs IBM Announces World's Smallest Working Silicon Transistor Yorktown Heights, N.Y., December 9, 2002 -- IBM today announced the world's smallest working silicon transistor. With this transistor IBM has been able to push silicon to limits on a molecular scale not previously achieved. At six nanometers in length, this new transistor is at least 10 times smaller than the state-of-the-art transistors in production today. A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter. The Consortium of International Semiconductor Companies in its 2001 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors projected that transistors have to be smaller than 9 nanometers by 2016 in order to continue the performance trend. IBM is the first company to make working transistors below that gate length. br>The full press release is at: http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20021209_transistor.shtml InfoWorld: Size matters: IBM creates world's smallest silicon The full article is at: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/09/021209hnibmsmall.xml --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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