Stretching The Limits Of Lithography: MIT Creates 25 Nm Structures

[Guest]

Cambridge (MA) - Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to develop 25 nm chip structures with a common lithography process, indicating that chip manufacturers will be able to push out the adoption of an expensive Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography manufacturing process by another chip generation.

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[Pei-chen]

The world will end by 2012 so I find EUV pointlless. LOL, I can't believe my old Pentium 120 is a 600 nm ship.

 

[Guest]

^ why will the world end in 2012? i'm interested to know why...

anyway this is very fascinating to me

 

[Pei-chen]

[citation][nom]thogrom[/nom]^ why will the world end in 2012? i'm interested to know why...anyway this is very fascinating to me[/citation]
Some esoteric American centuries ago predicted the world will end on Dec. 12, 2012. Some idiotic American now believe their story.

 

[krowbar]

There is no room for religious nonsense on this website, take your superstitions elsewhere.

 

[Guest]

Not to rain on MIT's parade (I'm even a former alumn)... but a few things to put this into perspective.

25nm features is not really very impressive. The smallest feature on the 32nm node is not much larger than this .(note: there are features smaller than 32nm on the 32nm node and this is true in all recent tech nodes).

Lithograph dictating your design/layout? While you could potentially get around this, it would certainly cost either die space or performance.

So basically the researches have come up with a cheap way to pattern the 32nm node with significant design restrictions (and no mention of other key lithography constraints like registration and overlay capabilities).

 

[Pei-chen]

[citation][nom]krowbar[/nom]There is no room for religious nonsense on this website, take your superstitions elsewhere.[/citation]
Read of post above you'll know I don't believe in that Aztec non-sense.

 

[IggyB]

hmm...
AMD better be a step ahead of what maybe their prototype to answer this...