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New IBM Plant Will Mass Produce .1 Micron Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-'em-small dept.

Ruger writes "AP News is carrying this story about IBM opening a new plant in upstate New York. What's most interesting about the story is that IBM will be producing .1 Micron Chips rather than the usual .25 or .18 produced by Intel and other chip makers, or .13 Micron chips they currently make for their PowerPC chips."

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  1. Re:Why .1 micron? -sig figs? by Insightfill · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe they can't really be sure it's .10 micron, and that it may be .14>x>.06 or something.

    (Of course, I'm only joking.)

    Scott

  2. Re:Upstate, eh? by dbrutus · · Score: 3, Funny

    For somebody from Long Island, everything north of the Bronx is upstate.

  3. Re:impressive by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine a computer small enough to fit in your pocket. Imagine a computer in your car. Imagine a computer in your glasses! It sounds like science fiction...

    I no longer have the exact quote, but it goes something like this...

    While computers today have over 18,000 vaccum tubes and weigh 1 ton, in the future computers may have as few as 1,000 vaccum tubes and weigh only 1/2 ton. --Popular Mechanics 1949

    --

    Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
  4. Re:Lightning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would imagine it would be very difficult. A .10 micron by .10 micron square is very small and the probability of a lightning strike into such a small square is infintesimal.

  5. IBM vaporchip by mapmaker · · Score: 3, Funny

    AP Reporter: Wow! 0.1 microns! How small is that?

    IBM marketroid: That's almost as small as some gas molecules. In fact, you could say these new chips are just VAPOR.