Intel Develops World's Smallest, Fastest CMOS Transistor
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 11, 2000 - Intel Corporation researchers have
achieved a significant breakthrough by building the world's smallest and
fastest CMOS transistor. This breakthrough will allow Intel within the next
five to 10 years to build microprocessors containing more than 400 million
transistors, running at 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles per second) and
operating at less than one volt.
The transistors feature structures just 30 nanometers in size and three
atomic layers thick. (Note: A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter).
Smaller transistors are faster, and fast transistors are the key building
block for fast microprocessors, the brains of computers and countless other
smart devices.
Etc...
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/cn121100.htm?iid=update+0012
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