Hafnium Set to Herald New Era in Chip Technology

[Article] How many transistors can you fit on a human hair? Intel announced that they’ve made a major breakthrough in their chip manufacturing technology earlier this week. The news had investors and technology enthusiasts ecstatic, as this is the first major advance since the launch of silicon-based transistors four decades ago.

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 At the center of the excitement is hafnium, a new metal alloy set to replace silicon as the major building block in microchip technology. Technological advances have seen the number of components on a single microchip double each year and researchers recently expressed their concern that silicon-based...
This article was published Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 by AFP
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Hafnium Set to Herald New Era in Chip Technology


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