New IBM Plant Will Mass Produce .1 Micron Chips

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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impressive

[tps12]

If this is true, it looks like Moore's Law could have a few years left in it, after all. In a few years, we may end up living in the future!

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, but it looks like IBM is actually seizing the bull by the horns and making it a reality.

It's also interesting that they are doing this in New York. I thought all chip manufacturing was done overseas, where labor is cheaper. Perhaps IBM is getting some sort of government subsidy for creating American jobs. Or maybe New York has a good supply of chipmakers already, so they can find more skilled workers.

Whatever the reason, it's good to see innovation marching along. This is the kind of activity that will get us out of the current recession. Good luck, IBM!

I hate to burst your bubble

[PhysicsGenius]

but this announcement is just hype from one of the savviest marketing companies around. They may be opening a new plant--I have no way of know that. What I do know is that a .1 micron process is physically impossible.

1 micron = 1000 nanometers, therefore .1 micron = 100 nanometers. Visible light extends from red (750 nm) down to blue (450). 100 nm is invisible to the human eye. There's no way someone could have designed a chip that small, build a machine to manufacture them or find the chips after they'd been made.

Please Slashdot, show a little skepticism before printing press releases like this.