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HTTP:: How to Fit More Transistors in a Smaller Processor
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Moore's Law has been the sacred rule of the computing hardware industry since its announcement in 1965. Basically, it states that the number of transistors in an average processor, for example, will increase exponentially, with the number doubling once every two years. However, it has been known that the pace of progress will eventually slow down, on account of problems that will occur in the miniaturization process. Experts at the Rice University (RU) and North Carolina State University may have found a way past that, when they created a new method of attaching molecules to the semiconducting silicon. The innovation could eventually result in smaller and more powerful processors. The problem facing the industry today is, quite simply put, the tendency to make things smaller and more powerful. As the size of the transistors has decreased over the second half of the 20th century, their number of processors has constantly increased. But now, making them smaller is becoming p!
roblematic, mostly because of the fact that the process has reached the nanoscale. And the problem is not the size, of only a few billionths of a meter, but the internal structure of the silicon itself. In normal computer “brains,” the silicon substrate is subjected to a process known as “doping,” in which t...
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