HP Introduces Defect-Tolerant Nano Elements

versicherung writes "With the ever shrinking feature size in microelectronics it will soon be prohibitively expensive to manufacture defect-free nano elements. HP has come up with a new way to produce fault-tolerant microchips. Utilizing mathematical techniques borrowed from coding theory, HP will be able to produce those chips by using a cross-bar architecture and adding 50 percent more wires as an 'insurance policy,' to fabricate nano-electronic circuits with nearly perfect yields even though the probability of broken components will be high."

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Seing as how about half of all produced microchips have to be tossed for defects, and many advanced manufacturing methods are prohibitive because of the inability to produce defect-free chips, I'm sure that a lot more companies than HP will have a strong interest in this.

Imagine being able to jump to a lower-micron manufacturing process far earlier because you don't need perfection. Intel and AMD would love that. :)