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AMD Makes 10-Nanometer Transistor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the billionathlon dept.

Yorrike writes: "Reuters is reporting that AMD are about to reveal their smallest double-gate transistor to date. From the article: 'The gate of the transistor, across which electrical current flows to turn the switch on, measures 10 nanometers, or 10 billionths of a meter.' The article goes on to suggest that this may lead to a 1 billion transistor chip."

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  1. Re:i wonder by HermesHuang · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point of making it smaller is so there's less current flow, and thus less heat. Granted, they'll pack more in, so the overall effect will probably be more heat generation, but per transistor, smaller ones do generate less heat.

  2. CMOS Technology ??? by Proudrooster · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "AMD said its laboratory demonstration of 10 nanometer Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Fin Field Effect Transistor (CMOS FinFET) is the outcome of collaborative research between AMD and the University of California, Berkeley"
    CMOS technology with a silicon "fin" to prevent electron leakage?
    Where on earth am I going to find a motherboard for a CMOS processor?
    First CMOS, then Silicon, then Gallium (what ever happened GaAs anyway?), then Coppermine, and now back to CMOS with a silicon fin.....
    Mmmrrrppphh, full circle you have come young Jedi.
    -Yoda