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Intel, Toshiba, Samsung To Form Chip Alliance

Posted by Soulskill on from the teaming-up-to-fight-doritos dept.

Lucas123 writes "According to a report from a Japanese news agency, semi-conductor leaders Intel, Samsung and Toshiba are forming a development alliance to halve the size of chip circuitry in order to create more dense NAND flash chips and more powerful processors. The vendors would not confirm the news report, but the Nikkei Daily said they hope to reduce lithography technology from the 20 nanometer size used today to something below 10nm. The news agency also said Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry may fund up to half the project's cost, or roughly $61 million."

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  1. Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm forming an alliance with Pringles, Frito-Lays and Doritos!

    1. Re:Oh yeah? by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Those 3 have been conspiring in secret to fatten my ass for the last 15 years. Nothing new.

    2. Re:Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Those 3 have been conspiring in secret to fatten my ass for the last 15 years.

      Their considerable success in that project bodes well for this new effort.

  2. Re:Alliance? by thermopile · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh please, please, PLEASE tell me that Hitachi is just begging to get in on this alliance.

    Then, what can we call the alliance between Samsung, Hitachi, Intel, and Toshiba? I'm sure someone out there can come up with a creative acronym.

    I'll start. How about "THIS"?

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  3. Re:Intel at it again... by TeknoHog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intel is starting to feel the heat from ARM.

    Wait, I thought heat comes from Intel, not from ARM.

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