As we move to 45 nanometers, it's not just the ICs that are hard to design, but it's also harder to design and build the tools that are used to design the ICs.
Quotes about nanometers (4 Quotes)
Transistor budgets are exploding when you get to 65 and 45 nanometers, and the number of transistors is massive. Every chip is going to have significant blocks of technology, so the interconnects between those blocks would be an interesting place for us to look at.
Fujitsu is applying advanced process technologies to a set of complex designs that move the networking and communications industries forward dramatically. We are leading the industry in the migration of these processes, first to 90 nanometers and now to 65 nanometers, which generate the high-speed, low-power, high-performance semiconductor devices required by our customers.
There's no reason, in theory, why we can't replicate this effect at room temperature, and we've already seen emission at 1,300 nanometers where telecommunications lasers work. There are challenges still to be overcome, and I'd expect to see this in production in three to four years.