Designing for New Dimensions
July 18, 2005
[Designing for New Dimensions]
Rensselaer researchers reach for new heights with 3-D chip technology
The past 40 years have seen great advances in computer technology, largely involving the size and speed of the circuits that process and store information. Today's laptops, PDAs, and mobile phones are far superior in performance, and orders of magnitude smaller in size and price compared to the enormous computers of the mid-20th century. It all has to do with the industry's mantra called "Moore's Law."
Today's news:
Electronic Devices
* Intel Itanium 2 Processors Get Faster Bus Architecture
* U.S. Department of Defense to Use HP Supercomputer for Weapons Systems Design
* Apple eyes new iPods for music videos
* World's First LCD That Simultaneously Displays Different Information in Right and Left Viewing Directions
Discussion at PhysOrgForum
Nano and Quantum Physics
* Carbon Nanotubes Could Aid Human Bones on the Mend
* UCLA chemists create nano valve
* $2 billion market in nanopore
* Diamonds are a Scientist's best Friend: Research into Building Better Small Machines
Physics
* Bruker AXS Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award For Innovative X-ray Detector
* Watching the birth and death of exotic molecules
* Haystack marks physics milestone
* Discussion at PhysOrgForum Predicting the lifetime of extreme ultraviolet optics
Space and Earth science
* Hurricane Emily hits Mexican resorts as death toll mounts
* Methane's Impacts on Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates
* NASA Storm Hunters Continue to Study Data From Hurricane Dennis
* Congressmen clash over climate study
* FY -2C Satellite Ready For Full Operation
* No Show Leaves LEO A Space Duet
* Forest Fire Threatens Whipple Observatory
* Manitoba meteorite hunter scores again
* Opportunity Edges Toward Crater Erebus
* Boeing ScanEagle to Achieve European Air Show First
Technology
* Texas Instruments Announces Next Generation PCI Express Physical Layer
* German-Japanese research cooperation opens the door to new markets
* Foiling e-document hackers
* Versatel buy-out to strengthen Tele2
* ARC, Pirelli Labs sign deal to develop micro fuel cell for industrial applications
* Researchers make advances in wind energy generation
* 10 years after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth
General Science
* Fundamental Discovery About the Fracture of Human Bone: It's All in the 'Glue'
* British butterfly popuation is decreasing
* Rio Grande River basin snow is studied
* Fewer elephants with tusks born in China
* Archaeologists conduct historic dig
News archive
Processed Si wafer supplied by SEMATECH bonded to a glass wafer after all the silicon was removed in the FC-NY, RPI. Prof. James Lu holds the 8" 3D-wafer. Photo by Russ Kraft.
Based on a 1965 prediction by Gordon E. Moore, who later co-founded Intel, the maxim says that the processing power of integrated circuits will double every 18 months. Moore's Law remains a cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, but researchers at Rensselaer say that foundation will soon crumble unless manufacturers make some radical changes -- in a new dimension.
"Fundamentally, we are at a crossroads and new technologies need to be seriously looked at," says Dr. Om Nalamasu, director of the Center for Integrated Electronics and recently appointed as vice president of research at Rensselaer. What Nalamasu refers to is sustaining the production of smaller, faster, and cheaper chips. "The idea is to make things small, but still with productivity enhancements of 30 percent year to year," he continues, pointing out that as chips get smaller and smaller, the cost of fabricating them goes up dramatically. "By 2010, you would be using 45 nanometer design rules, and by one estimate a fabrication facility would cost $10 billion."
But cost is not the only challenge facing chip manufacturers, according to Jian-Qiang "James" Lu, an associate
"You're right, the books should be smaller. And they should be printed on hemp paper."
books do need to be smaller; most classes I have seen use less then half of its pages. now why don't we just leave those pages out.
it would certainly give them a marketing nightmare, that's for sure. and that marketing nightmare may translate into someone like dell or hp moving to AMD as well.
Me, I rather have the people almost get killed. Like have the shuttle blow it self up 10 minutes after they got off - it would be the best of both world.
Anyway, it's not going to work - it would mean more cash for Iraq.
it msy be that there is less people using OS X and linux, also the people that use them tend to call tech support less often as they have a better clue of what they are doing.
let me rephase your arugment
Wow, can you imagine, when we had 0% television, we are blood thirsty monster, we used our weapons to make sure that others work for us for nothing. Most of us have no clue how to read, and technology is barely moving at all.
Since we got 100% broadcast television, we have been getting more peace loving. technology is booming. faster chips and computers are rolling out every single day. most of the population knows how to read, and standard of living have been shot though the roof.
Am I the only one seeing a relationship here? We should pray for all TV to live. We should wish TV on our ourselves.
just because 2 events takes place at the same time does not mean that they have to be related.
the anwer to that is simple: high voltage and superconductors.
as we all know, power = I^2 * r. really high voltage is going to make I go really low. Super conductors have 0 r. so basically the power wasted in transfer is 0.
cost, for one thing. for example, right now I am getting 6 month of newspapers for just 10 dollars. I doubt that is enough to pay for the paper it's printed on.
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the nforces are motherboards. the fxs are also called geforce 5s. hope that helps.
aren't they here already?
actually, by burning those 1000 dollar bills he is helping the poor - by making everyone else's money worth more then it would be otherwise.
just buy a lottery ticket. for the price of $1 you get to have a chance to go to space and do a whole lot more things.
just get a pc.
Designing for New Dimensions July 18, 2005 [Designing for New Dimensions] Rensselaer researchers reach for new heights with 3-D chip technology The past 40 years have seen great advances in computer technology, largely involving the size and speed of the circuits that process and store information. Today's laptops, PDAs, and mobile phones are far superior in performance, and orders of magnitude smaller in size and price compared to the enormous computers of the mid-20th century. It all has to do with the industry's mantra called "Moore's Law." Today's news: Electronic Devices * Intel Itanium 2 Processors Get Faster Bus Architecture * U.S. Department of Defense to Use HP Supercomputer for Weapons Systems Design * Apple eyes new iPods for music videos * World's First LCD That Simultaneously Displays Different Information in Right and Left Viewing Directions Discussion at PhysOrgForum Nano and Quantum Physics * Carbon Nanotubes Could Aid Human Bones on the Mend * UCLA chemists create nano valve * $2 billion market in nanopore * Diamonds are a Scientist's best Friend: Research into Building Better Small Machines Physics * Bruker AXS Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award For Innovative X-ray Detector * Watching the birth and death of exotic molecules * Haystack marks physics milestone * Discussion at PhysOrgForum Predicting the lifetime of extreme ultraviolet optics Space and Earth science * Hurricane Emily hits Mexican resorts as death toll mounts * Methane's Impacts on Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates * NASA Storm Hunters Continue to Study Data From Hurricane Dennis * Congressmen clash over climate study * FY -2C Satellite Ready For Full Operation * No Show Leaves LEO A Space Duet * Forest Fire Threatens Whipple Observatory * Manitoba meteorite hunter scores again * Opportunity Edges Toward Crater Erebus * Boeing ScanEagle to Achieve European Air Show First Technology * Texas Instruments Announces Next Generation PCI Express Physical Layer * German-Japanese research cooperation opens the door to new markets * Foiling e-document hackers * Versatel buy-out to strengthen Tele2 * ARC, Pirelli Labs sign deal to develop micro fuel cell for industrial applications * Researchers make advances in wind energy generation * 10 years after birth of e-commerce, fear may curb growth General Science * Fundamental Discovery About the Fracture of Human Bone: It's All in the 'Glue' * British butterfly popuation is decreasing * Rio Grande River basin snow is studied * Fewer elephants with tusks born in China * Archaeologists conduct historic dig News archive Processed Si wafer supplied by SEMATECH bonded to a glass wafer after all the silicon was removed in the FC-NY, RPI. Prof. James Lu holds the 8" 3D-wafer. Photo by Russ Kraft. Based on a 1965 prediction by Gordon E. Moore, who later co-founded Intel, the maxim says that the processing power of integrated circuits will double every 18 months. Moore's Law remains a cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, but researchers at Rensselaer say that foundation will soon crumble unless manufacturers make some radical changes -- in a new dimension. "Fundamentally, we are at a crossroads and new technologies need to be seriously looked at," says Dr. Om Nalamasu, director of the Center for Integrated Electronics and recently appointed as vice president of research at Rensselaer. What Nalamasu refers to is sustaining the production of smaller, faster, and cheaper chips. "The idea is to make things small, but still with productivity enhancements of 30 percent year to year," he continues, pointing out that as chips get smaller and smaller, the cost of fabricating them goes up dramatically. "By 2010, you would be using 45 nanometer design rules, and by one estimate a fabrication facility would cost $10 billion." But cost is not the only challenge facing chip manufacturers, according to Jian-Qiang "James" Lu, an associate
"You're right, the books should be smaller. And they should be printed on hemp paper." books do need to be smaller; most classes I have seen use less then half of its pages. now why don't we just leave those pages out.
it would certainly give them a marketing nightmare, that's for sure. and that marketing nightmare may translate into someone like dell or hp moving to AMD as well.
>because they don't have to pay MS their fee. and I suppose the people that are working on Mac OS are working for free, right?
Me, I rather have the people almost get killed. Like have the shuttle blow it self up 10 minutes after they got off - it would be the best of both world. Anyway, it's not going to work - it would mean more cash for Iraq.
and have that web site suffer the effect of a million slashdot links?
remind me again about what bill gates say regarding memory?
Forgive me for my stupidity, but isn't 1Kbps considered to be extremely slow? (as I recall, dial up is 56Kbps)
it msy be that there is less people using OS X and linux, also the people that use them tend to call tech support less often as they have a better clue of what they are doing.
well, it won't work - it is rather easy to estalish a new spyware company.
I was under the impression that they were going to use blue ray instead of HD-DVD.
let me rephase your arugment Wow, can you imagine, when we had 0% television, we are blood thirsty monster, we used our weapons to make sure that others work for us for nothing. Most of us have no clue how to read, and technology is barely moving at all. Since we got 100% broadcast television, we have been getting more peace loving. technology is booming. faster chips and computers are rolling out every single day. most of the population knows how to read, and standard of living have been shot though the roof. Am I the only one seeing a relationship here? We should pray for all TV to live. We should wish TV on our ourselves. just because 2 events takes place at the same time does not mean that they have to be related.
which is still pretty darn low
there's always the internet. computers are fairly cheap and dsl don't cost as much as cable TV dp.
but all they have to do is kill the "search" head, and google will go down.
the anwer to that is simple: high voltage and superconductors. as we all know, power = I^2 * r. really high voltage is going to make I go really low. Super conductors have 0 r. so basically the power wasted in transfer is 0.
but how did they measure the current? I would think that a amp meter would involve in some resistance. wouldn'y that ruin the experiment?
cost, for one thing. for example, right now I am getting 6 month of newspapers for just 10 dollars. I doubt that is enough to pay for the paper it's printed on.
I am planning to never die. hey, I'm doing pretty well so far.
well, it worked fairly well for wikipedia - they don't seem to be overly troll infested.