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TI strides towards 65 nanometres
News Along with the tremendous increase in functionality TI will offer at 65 nanometres with highly integrated designs, we are taking significant steps to lead the industry in managing the power those designs consume.
[March 23, 2004, 10:20]
Intel shrinks chips to 90 nanometres
News Currently, the fastest chips are made on the 130-nanometre process, which means that circuits inside the chip measure around 130 nanometres wide. By shrinking the average feature size to 90 nanometres, Intel can cut the size of the processors in...
[March 12, 2002, 16:48]
Intel's major chip breakthrough
News The chip giant's latest, and tiniest invention is a CMOS transistor just 30 nanometres in size and three atomic layers thick. Thirty nanometres are equivalent to 0.03 microns. A breakthrough in microprocessor technology promises a ten fold increase...
[December 11, 2000, 10:35]
Coalition shows off process for faster chips
News Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, showcased at a press conference at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Wednesday, will allow chip manufacturers to "draw" circuits as small as 10 nanometres wide.
[April 12, 2001, 13:42]
Night goggles get nano-vision
News A single dot is about 20 nanometres in base size and about 4 nanometres in height. Tiny pyramids of molecules commonly used in communications chips could potentially reduce the cost and increase the performance of night vision goggles, according to...
[June 17, 2004, 9:45]
AMD passes 90-nanometre milestone
News Generally, shifting manufacturing processes -- in this case moving from a 130-nanometre process to one that turns out chips whose average internal feature size is 90-nanometres -- enables chipmakers to boost performance by packing more transistors...
[August 18, 2004, 9:00]
HP makes nanotech breakthrough
News Corporate research is increasingly focusing on nanotechnology: the science of building computer chips or other devices out of elements measuring 100 nanometres or less. Next year, new microprocessors and other computer chips will technically be...
[September 9, 2002, 8:57]
IBM taking Moore's Law by the horns
News V-Groove transistors are capable of scaling to channel lengths of ten nanometres, or lengths of 0.01 micron and below. Using this simple technique, we can get channels as small as ten nanometres or smaller," said Phaedon Avouris, manager of...
[August 11, 2000, 15:03]
Applied uses atom to shrink chips
News Currently, the fastest chips are made with the 130-nanometre process, which means that circuits inside the chip measure about 130 nanometres wide. By shrinking the average feature size to 65 nanometres, companies can cut the size of the processors...
[July 23, 2002, 11:31]
Xilinx approaches 90-nanometre goal
News Moving to a smaller nanometre chipmaking process -- such as from 130- to 90-nanometres as IBM is doing for Xilinx -- produces smaller transistors and that are closer together inside a chip. A distance of 90 nanometres is about a thousandth of the...
[April 1, 2003, 10:55]
Wanted: Successor to flash memory
News Chipmakers are currently selling so-called 130-nanometre chips and will soon make the move to 90 nanometres. Barring breakthroughs, the technology will need to be replaced by the time it gets to 45 nanometres, near the end of the decade, said Craig...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
There's life in the old law yet, says Moore
News When these features are shrunk to 30 nanometres -- expected in seven to eight years -- designers will begin to hit a design wall. Processors now come with features measuring 130 nanometres; next year, chips will sport features measuring 100...
[July 10, 2002, 10:46]
IBM backs £54m supercomputer centre
News At the Rensselaer supercomputing centre, scientists will attempt to design transistors and other devices measuring only a few nanometres long (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre) and simulate how different atoms and materials interact.
[May 12, 2006, 10:45]
'Nanospring pill' could detect cancer cells
News The zinc oxide-based nanosprings are 10 to 60 nanometres wide and five to 20 nanometres thick, but up to several millimetres long. Scientists at the US Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have developed a tiny "nanospring" structure that...
[November 10, 2003, 12:30]
Motorola tech gets flashy
News But many believe floating gate will start to break down once cells become smaller than 90 nanometres, or, as others have it, 65 nanometres. Motorola later this month will detail some of its efforts to increase the capacity of flash memory -- chips...
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
Intel draws chips with extreme UV
News EUV lithography tools also rely on ultraviolet light, which has a relatively short wavelength of 13.5 nanometres, to print smaller circuits. Right now, Intel's factories are using lithography tools that use 193-nanometer light sources to draw...
[August 2, 2004, 8:30]
Intel unveils new chip manufacturing technology
News Technically, these chips can be classified as nanotechnology parts because their components will measure less than 100 nanometres across. Shrinking it (the gate oxide) to 65 nanometres is going to be pretty tough," he said.
[August 13, 2002, 7:39]
Intel set to overhaul Pentium 4 by 2005
News Transistors, which next year will contain features measuring 45 nanometres, or billions of a metre, have become so small that they "leak" substantial amounts of electricity. In that process, the average feature size of chips will measure 90...
[October 9, 2002, 8:52]
Maxtor loads up disk platters
News Johnson said researchers have thought the underlayer needed to be as thick as 400 nanometres. Given that the final top layer of magnetic material is about 30 nanometres, the underlayer represented a relatively large amount of material to deposit on...
[October 13, 2003, 13:20]
Applied Materials polishes Black Diamond
News A number of 90-nanometer chips will contain low-k layers, "but once you get to 65 nanometres it becomes a necessity," MacWilliams said. While chipmakers are putting low-capacitance materials into subtransistor levels, most also are working on ways...
[February 5, 2004, 8:00]
