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Re: Do you know of any semis developing enhancements like this...?

>> Yes. The list of top twenty semiconductor-makers would be the answer to this.

That's an interesting response, given your previous claim that process shrinks will come with diminishing returns.

Re: Actually, there are dozens of improvements which work in the lab. The problem is not these don't exist, but their manufacturability. The other problem is the cost for leading edge nodes per se.

Oh, I see. Many semis have techniques that work in the lab, but they really aren't practical when it comes to cost and manufacturability. I think I agree with this.

It's just too bad that no semis are researching techniques that are viable in terms of cost and manufacturability. Perhaps those enhanced Hi-K, Metal Gate transistors from Intel that they've demoed repeatedly, including 3.33GHz quad core chips running benchmarks and outperforming Kentsfield processors by >40% in some cases, won't end up being viable because of cost or manufacturability....