Printing Chips

batty writes :"Nature has this article about a process that uses a quartz die and a laser to mechanically print features onto chips instead of photo-etching them. The article mentions engraving a silicon wafer with features only 10 nanometres in size, as opposed to 130 nanometres using photlithography, and the process is quicker, simpler, and more environmentally friendly than current processes. Which is nice."

Comments

Comparisons.

[GigsVT]

The whole process takes just 250 nanoseconds - nearly a million times faster than the blink of an eye.

Thanks for the meaningful comparison.

In other news, computers can add 2+2 three trillion times faster than you can commute to work. More at 11.