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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (22288)6/18/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (1) of 25960
 
Zeev,

I believe this conversation was held about 1.00µ feature sizes about a decade ago.

Scientists have a habit of making the impossible look practical then easy.

I subscribe to the theory that if one person can imagine something then the scientists can build it. Sooner or later.

With Copper mine, the problem could be with:

1. the chip design
2. the circuit design on the chip
3. any of the processes / process tools in making the chip
4. packaging
5. the laws of physics
6. none of the above
7. some of the above
8. all of the above. ;-)

I believe that in the early posts on this specific thread, you'll find some one who claimed that the laws of physics precluded transistors with feature sizes smaller than 0.10µ ever being built. Yet that impossibility has already happened.

Right now, fabs are making chips with feature sizes smaller than the 248nm wavelength of the light being used.

Until we get down to single atom transistors, I wouldn't count out the ingenuity of the scientists to continue to evolve the technology. But I really don't expect single atom transistors in my life time. (I can't even conceive what that could possibly look like. electrons skewed to the left of the atom to indicate "on" or the right to indicate "off". ????? And how could that possibly be detected, even if it could be set???

Perhaps, Katherine could add some intelligent discussion. I failed. <g>

Ian.
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