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Moore's Law Alive and Kicking |
We're pretty clear that we'll be hearing this same story each and every year, whereby the story goes on every year for the rest of eternity, but hey, it's not like we're kvetching over that or anything like that. Once again, we're hearing that brilliant scientists have developed a breakthrough that would make Mr. Moore look remarkably smart, as a new approach to chip making could eliminate features in silicon chips "that are many times smaller than what the wavelength of the light used to make them."
As reported, the new method "produces grids of parallel lines just 25-nanometers width using light with a wavelength of 351-nanometers," even though the grids aren't functional circuits just yet. If you like to hear more in technobabble on the matter, Google this "photolithographic" and "nanotechnology."
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