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IBM Sports Smallest Transistor
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Taken from this press release:
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.
Posted by: Bored
So does this mean it won't be long before processor speeds and memory banks get a x10 boost? Also, 6 is a lot smaller than 9, and 13 years early too. This developement puts computer technology way ahead of "schedule".
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