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Intel develops transistors 3 atoms thick

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NaughtyusMaximus

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From I.T., there is news that Intel is holding true to Moore's law:

Intel said it has developed the world's smallest transistors, which could boost chip speeds sixfold in five years and lead to devices previously considered the realm of science fiction.
The No. 1 computer-chip maker plans release details in the US on Monday about the transistors, which are just three atoms thick. It expects to sell 400 million-transistor processors able to do 400 million calculations in the time it takes to blink. Intel's first Pentium chip in 1993 had 3.1 million transistors, and the new Pentium 4 has 42 million.
 
Wonder if it will work, the standard transistor is a mix of different elements. But who would have gueesed you would ever need more than 550K of memory?
 
Interesting since transistors consists of semiconductors and such that consists of many atoms...

Maybe it is possible. Then it would be really cool. But think about the manufacturing process on the atomic level. :Q
 
I was thinking the same thing as imaginer. Considering that most of the transistors for CPUs are made for PNP, 3 atoms just don?t sound right. That would make one atom per part. What are they doing? Lining up the atoms now? Now that would be very impressive.
 
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