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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. Alliance? by nurb432 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or collusion?

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    ---- Booth was a patriot ----
  2. Halve, or quarter the size? by noidentity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    they hope to reduce lithography technology from the 20 nanometer size used today to something below 10nm

    Wouldn't this allow quartering the size, since you have this halving in both dimensions?

  3. Intel at it again... by RocketRabbit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Intel is starting to feel the heat from ARM. Sooner than later datacenters will be running on ARM processors, and doing the same work per time unit at a fraction of the power cost.

    This is a new market that they wish to stomp on before it can get started.