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Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom dept.

jeffsenter writes "The NYTimes has the story on IBM with JSR Micro advancing photolithograhy research to allow 30nm chips. Good news for Intel, AMD, Moore's Law and overclockers. The IBM researchers' technology advance allows for the same deep ultraviolet rays used to make chips today to be used at 30nm. Intel's newest CPUs are manufactured at 65nm and present technology tapped out soon after that. This buys Moore's Law a few more years."

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  1. Glad to see IBM catching up... by merced317 · · Score: 5, Informative

    since RIT has been doing 26nm. http://www.physorg.com/news10755.html

  2. Re:I've heard that one before... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Informative
    Isn't that why it's a law?

    It's not a law. It's just incorrectly called a law.

    It should be plainly obvious that any exponentially increasing phenomenon can't be a "law". If this so-called law were to continue unabated for a couple of centuries, the number of transistors in a chip would exceed the number of atoms on planet earth. Clearly, a limit is going to be reached well before that happens.