Intel has built what it claims is the world's smallest and fastest CMOS transistor. The company says that within the next five to ten years (nice accurate bit of futurology there) it will be able to build microprocessors containing more than 400 million transistors, running at 10GHz and operating at less than 1V.
Intel boffins will disclose more details later today at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
The transistors contain structures just 30 nanometers in size and three atomic layers thick. More than 100,000 of these gates would need to be stacked to achieve the thickness of a sheet of paper.
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