Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:37:24 12/17/02
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On December 16, 2002 at 02:55:08, Terry McCracken wrote: > > > >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.sht > >InfoWorld: Size matters: IBM creates world's smallest silico > >The full article is at: >http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/09/021209hnibmsmall.xml Thermal difficulties aside, how many of these can go on a typical wafer? More interesting would be: How many microprocessors, using this transistor, can be put on a single wafer? In computing the number of transistors, one must consider that additional non-transistor components may be required. The important question is how far apart must these transistors be spaced in a practical circuit, such as a 64-bit microprocessor. Will it be practical to significantly increase the number of microprocessors per wafer? How many? I still look for 10,000 microprocessors per wafer. Maybe wafers can get bigger? Bob D. Bob D.
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