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To: bob who wrote (16438)12/11/2000 10:10:44 AM
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Another new development that will impact EDIG positively in the long run.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2000--Intel
Corporation researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough by
building the world's smallest and fastest CMOS transistor.
This breakthrough will allow Intel within the next five to 10
years to build microprocessors containing more than 400 million
transistors, running at 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles per second)
and operating at less than one volt.
The transistors feature structures just 30 nanometers in size and
three atomic layers thick. (Note: A nanometer is one-billionth of a
meter). Smaller transistors are faster, and fast transistors are the
key building block for fast microprocessors, the brains of computers
and countless other smart devices.
These new transistors, which act like switches controlling the
flow of electrons inside a microchip, could complete 400 million
calculations in the blink an eye or finish two million calculations in
the time it takes a speeding bullet to travel one inch.
Scientists expect such powerful microprocessors to allow
applications popular in science-fiction stories -- such as
instantaneous, real-time voice translation -- to become an everyday
reality.
Researchers from Intel Labs are disclosing the details of this
advance today in San Francisco at the International Electron Devices
Meeting, the premier technical conference for semiconductor engineers
and scientists.
"This breakthrough will allow Intel to continue increasing the
performance and reducing the cost of microprocessors well into the
future," said Dr. Sunlin Chou, vice president and general manager of
Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group. "As our researchers
venture into uncharted areas beyond the previously expected limits of
silicon scaling, they find Moore's Law still intact."
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