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New Transistor Chips Only 3 Atoms Thick June 11, 2001 The Intel computer chip company says it has developed incredibly tiny transistors three atoms thick that are the world's fastest silicon transistors. Company officials announced their breakthrough Sunday at an electronics technology conference in Kyoto, Japan. The new transistors are tiny electronic switches that can turn on and off 1.5 trillion times a second using very little electricity. Intel says this could make it possible to store more than 333 copies of the voluminous novel "Moby Dick" on a chip the size of a fingernail. The technology will enable scientists to pack about 25 percent more onto silicon wafers than today's fastest Pentium 4 computers. The new transistors also use less than one volt, compared to the 1.7 volts used by Pentium 4 chips. Intel engineers said the new technology makes possible processors containing up to a billion transistors and running at speeds of 10 gigahertz. Today's fastest desktop chips contain 42 million transistors and run at 1.7 Ghz. Intel's discovery means that Moore's Law -- which says that chip speeds will double every 18-24 months -- will hold up until at least 2007, which is roughly when the new technology is expected to find its way into commercial production of Intel processors.
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