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  Keeping up with Moore's Law - International Herald Tribune 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/proto.php

  NEW YORK : If innovation has a heart, it is probably a semiconductor, beating to the pace of Moore's Law. Under this principle, named for Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, the chip industry in the ... last four decades has doubled the number of transistors it crams onto a chip about every 18 months. That is a big reason that chips are now in our offices, homes, cars and toys - and often implanted in our pets and occasionally in our own bodies. Chips are almost ubiquitous, and where they are not, they probably will be soon. But keeping the heart of innovation beating is becoming ever harder and more expensive. Making chips is an improbable blend of farming, photography and baking: Think of your standard 300-millimeter silicon wafer as a field where mostly metallic substances are "grown" according to patterns put in place by photolithography, and then "baked" at extremely high temperatures. This agri-photo-baking requires big money: It costs $3 billion to $5 billion to build a single se   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  air gap, chip, fab, ibm, moore's law , nanoscale, self-assembling nanotechnology, self-assembling technology, self-assembly, semiconductor   [More...] [Less...]