Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2007 21:39 UTC, submitted by SReilly
"The next step in the silicon industry's steadfast pursuit of ever smaller and faster chips has been unveiled. Intel has shown off what it says are the world's first working chips which contain transistors with features just 32 billionths of a metre wide. Their production means the industry axiom that has underpinned all chip development for the last 40 years, known as Moore's Law, remains intact. Speaking to BBC News, Dr Gordon Moore said that he expected the proposition that bears his name should continue 'for at least another decade'."
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2005-07-08
I clearly remember in my early chip days some of the best minds in semiconductors (IBM, Bell labs) suggesting that 1u was near the end of the road and that you couldn't build a DRAm > 64MB but that was back in the 3u and 64KB days. Those brick walls easily were crushed.
What could stop Moore's law from continuing is not the scientific and engineering creativity of process engineers but the sheer capital required to do this and only Intel is really up to it, upto a point.