Posted on 03/14/2022 1:57:12 PM PDT by ShadowAce
A Silicon atom is around .2 nanometers. It looks like these folks have finally reached the bottom.
when you are working with something that small, and you accidentally misplace it, how in the world do you find it again?
Oy vey!
20 years of research to develop EUV lithography saved the semiconductor industry.
It was nearly impossible to scale past 14nm without it.
Intel’s 8 year struggle w 10nm on 193nm lithography points to this key fact.
Parasitic capacitance caused by need for quad patterning limits how fast you can run the circuits.
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