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Intel Builds World's Smallest Transistor
Wednesday December 13 by Joel MooreIntel researchers have made a significant breakthrough creating the world's smallest and fastest CMOS transistor. The achievement will allow Intel to build microprocessors containing more than 400 million transistors, running at 10 gigahertz and operating at less than one volt, in the next five to ten years.
The new transistors are just 30 nanometers in size and three atomic layers thick. This new technology will allow Intel to build fast transistors that will build faster microprocessors. 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, according to a Intel press release.
Dr. Sunlin Chou, vice president and general manager of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group, said "This breakthrough will allow Intel to continue increasing the performance and reducing the cost of microprocessors well into the future…As our researchers venture into uncharted areas beyond the previously expected limits of silicon scaling, they find Moore's Law still intact."
These ultra-small transistors were built by reducing their dimensions. These experimental transistors, while featuring capabilities that are generations beyond the most advanced technologies used in manufacturing today, were built using the same physical structure as in today's computer chips.
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