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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Feb 2006 17:55 UTC, submitted by Adurbe

Scientists at IBM say they have figured out how to produce smaller and more powerful microchips than previously thought possible. It is hoped IBM's announcement at San Jose on Monday will mean the creation of miniscule microprocessors which will save the IT manufacturing sector billions of dollars. The breakthrough revolves around the distance between the circuit-lines chip makers must 'draw' onto the surface of a computer processor. IBM scientists declared they can now draw lines on silicon much closer together than ever before.

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RE: Delaying the inevitable

by Jedd on Tue 21st Feb 2006 20:17 UTC in reply to "Delaying the inevitable"

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2005-07-06

WOW! That is fscking amazing! I hope that NAND CPUs come to pass soon.:)

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RE[2]: Delaying the inevitable

by MightyPenguin on Wed 22nd Feb 2006 15:10 in reply to "RE: Delaying the inevitable"

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2005-11-18

While it sounds cool, using only NAND (and it says NOR) operations means that most logic will take more logic gates to complete. That's why nobody's made a commercial NAND-only processor yet Also, this tec is already behind in the size area being 110nm while AMD is at 9xnm and Intel will have 65nm soon.

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