IBM chip production technology breakthrough Moore's law to continue

According to foreign media reports, IBM announced Monday that the company has developed 193 nanometer DUV (deep-ultraviolet optical lithography) technology, can be used for the production of only 29.9 square nanometer circuit, equivalent to the current mainstream chip 1/3. Currently, Intel's latest Core Solo and Core Duo processor uses a 65 nanometer production process, while the AMD processor is still using a process of 90 nm.

In a sense, IBM's new technology for Moore's law continues to take effect to clear the obstacles. Intel co-founder Gunton Moore (Gordon Moore) in 1965 proposed that the number of transistors per unit area on the chip about doubled every two years, which is the famous Moore's law. Over the years, the development of the chip industry has followed this rule. Most industry insiders believe that Moore's law will continue to take effect until at least 2015.

Currently the largest density of computer memory chips can store 4 billion bits of information, along with Moore's law extends, in 2013 the computer memory chip will be able to store 64 billion bits of information. According to current standards, this chip will be able to store about 2000 songs. As the volume of the circuit becomes smaller and smaller, the current production process is close to the physical limit. Therefore, in recent years the industry has been looking for new ways to break through the bottleneck of the production process, the production of faster, higher performance chips.

Robert from IBM company - (Robert D. Allen), said Dr. IBM's new technology for the entire chip industry has won seven years of breathing time. Seven years from now, there must be more advanced technology to keep Moore's law in force. In the short term, IBM's new technology can save billions of dollars in research and development spending for the entire chip industry. Of course, once this technology has become the past, the chip industry must be on the road, looking for new alternatives.