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Chip firms search for geometry shrink beyond 18nm step

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/issue/dailynews.asp#A2
Investment in the new techniques is part of a search to find technology that will take the semiconductor industry beyond the ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors), which predicts 18nm process by 2018.

Current techniques such as silicon-on-insulator (SoI) and strained silicon are being used to get shrinks to deliver the traditional benefits of higher performance, smaller area and lower power, but many think this is postponing the inevitable: a move to new materials and technologies.


FYI, I just found this Electronics Weekly site recently, but I'm discovering it has lots of interesting stories, Semiconductor related, and otherwise High Tech, and generally reports them in an unbiased way. Spares the speculation and rhetoric, just the facts please.......

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