Author: leonid
Date: 19:38:41 12/18/02
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On December 17, 2002 at 11:37:24, Bob Durrett wrote: >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 Extremely exciting news! Thank for indicating this link. I hope that arrival of this new technology will be realized in much shorter time that above link suggest. It will be nice to have already something practical in around 2007. Cheers, Leonid. >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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