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Throb · Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:11 pm Chips push through nano-barrier

And thias is a bloody small one !

The next milestone in the relentless pursuit of smaller, higher performance microchips has been unveiled.
Chip-maker Intel has announced that it will start producing processors using transistors with features just 45 nanometres (billionth of a metre) wide.

Shrinking the technology that underpins the basic building blocks of chips will make them faster and more efficient.

Computer giant IBM has also signalled its intention to start production of microchips using the technology.

"Big Blue", which developed the technology with partners Toshiba, Sony and AMD, intends to incorporate the transistors into its chips in 2008.

Intel said it would start commercial fabrication of processors at three factories later this year.