Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: Kakkoii
Yeah I understand what your saying. I probably should have worded my initial posts a little better, because I by no means intended that lithography couldn't go past 11nm, I was merely implying that the components on the chip when we get around that scale will be coming close to the atomic limit. If the gate size at 11nm is 6nm, then that means it's only roughly 60 atoms wide, no? So that's getting pretty darn close, you only have so many atoms, still a few nodes to go after that I know, but close none the less. But yeah I retract most of my past statements, that it is going to take more than 5 years to reach the point of only a few atom thick construction. But we are getting pretty damn close!
I know it's OT for this thread, but I just saw this and figured you'd get pretty good read out of it along with a few others (otherwise I would have just sent the link by PM...thilan29 please forgive the OT intrusion):
Cool, thanks for that link, was an interesting read. The next decade sure is going to be interesting for the semiconductor industry, (Although, won't the industry have to change it's name as we move away from semi-conductors? lol. That website will need to change it's name to superconductor.net!
) . It's nice being able to live during the evolution of processors and nanotech, being able to watch how it started and how it grew to be what it will be in the future. Although being born 8000 years from now would have been pretty awesome too. I can only hope scientist's cure aging before I die so I may see what wonderful technology comes to fruition in the very distant future....*dreams*
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