nanny technology

[rolex]

Read in the paper today that the next generation of tiny transistors are going into production. How small are 45 nannies? Can you see that with the naked eye?

[Brink]

rolex said:

Read in the paper today that the next generation of tiny transistors are going into production. How small are 45 nannies? Can you see that with the naked eye?

Nannies?

Don't you mean nanometers?

[ThePassenger]

nanometer, the distance between transistors in a chip. So... say the Pentium 4 (as a made up example) that'll be fabricated at 90nm (i.e. 90nanometers between each transistor).

Interesting oddity, the amount of money it costs to upgrade an existing production line means that quite often whole sites are bulldozed and new ones built on top.

Nanotechnology is something slightly different. It's a one size fits all term for any 'small machine' that is measured on the nanometer scale (so... about the size of a blood cell). Often seen in science fiction as 'incurable plagues', 'cure for cancer' and so on. Often in science fiction nanites are also Von Neuman machines, self replication machines that devour local resources to create exact copies of themselves (i.e. Stargate's 'replicators' are VNM's) but nanites do not necessarily have to be self propagating.

[dilbert]

www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20060125comp.htm

They have been manufacturing at 65nm for quite some time. I think however that their process is not entirely photolithographic. IIRC they are using molecular beam epitaxy to achieve the end result, although I could be wrong.

Nanny technology, it isn't. Nano technology, it might be. As far as I know small runs have been done at 15nm (not Intel), but yield is really critical to any process, so it'll be a while before we see that in our PDA's - or whatever.

Edited by dilbert on Sunday 28th January 01:48

[PJ S]

For a moment there, I thought this was posted in the wrong forum - thinking it should be GG or MN.

Thanks for the laugh rolex - I needed it.

[shocker-z]

i think Nanny Technologie is a good idea for sumething PCWorld would do! lol

A program that scans for adware and a Nanny engineer (Guy who couldnt get a sales job who knows how to work a till) would come out and fix it, if the program shows an error! lmao


Trust me people would pay for that! i worked in tech support for 2 years! SAD i know

Regards
Liam

[annodomini2]

ThePassenger said:

nanometer, the distance between transistors in a chip. So... say the Pentium 4 (as a made up example) that'll be fabricated at 90nm (i.e. 90nanometers between each transistor).

Interesting oddity, the amount of money it costs to upgrade an existing production line means that quite often whole sites are bulldozed and new ones built on top.

Nanotechnology is something slightly different. It's a one size fits all term for any 'small machine' that is measured on the nanometer scale (so... about the size of a blood cell). Often seen in science fiction as 'incurable plagues', 'cure for cancer' and so on. Often in science fiction nanites are also Von Neuman machines, self replication machines that devour local resources to create exact copies of themselves (i.e. Stargate's 'replicators' are VNM's) but nanites do not necessarily have to be self propagating.

90nm is the gate width inside the transistors.

[morningside]

According to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology
A nanometre is a billionth of a metre.

[AL666]

It's actually a thousand millionth (1/1000,000,000) of a metre, which Americans would call a billionth.

[Balmoral Green]

Just bought Michael Crichtons Prey this afternoon, might start on it soon.