| Computer Technology / Tiny Transistors Comprised of 7 Atoms |
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| | May 30, 2010 - 12:27:26am | 1 of 8 | | | Login |
| This is quite a remarkable feat, considering the extreme precision required to construct such a tiny crystal lattice. None the less, this means a significant boost to the amount of transistors that can fit onto a die and, therefore logic gates meaning significantly faster chips can be designed.
http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/news/quantum-leap-world-s-smallest-transistor-built-with-just-7-atoms/ |
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| | May 30, 2010 - 2:18:52am | 2 of 8 | | | Login |
| | prolly got about 15-20 years before this actually gets implimented in todays graphics chips. |
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| | | I wouldn't say that long, I'd bet 5-7 years. |
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| | | So this is 4nm? We could see that in 5-7 years if there are no hiccups along the way. This is good news as the future of transistor scaling has previously looked almost impossible much beyond 10nm. |
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| | | And this is why I always called Moore's Law bullshit. It's always been a theory at best, which just happened to fall into that pattern for the last few decades. |
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| | If there are no hiccups, we'll see 4nm in 12 years or 2022.
65nm - 2006
32nm - 2010
16nm - 2014
8nm - 2018
4nm - 2022 |
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| | | I agree, and further more ways around any problems presented are always eventually found. |
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| | | Which part of Moore's Law do you find disagreeable? |
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