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To: StanX Long who wrote (64304)	6/12/2002
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TSMC Details New Type of Transistor Online Staff -- Electronic News, 6/11/2002 e-insite.net Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) today provided details of a working device it has demonstrated using a new type of CMOS transistor as small as 9nm. The company said the device sets new performance records and allows transistors about 10 times smaller than current production technology. The new transistor is a variation on the standard field-effect transistor (FET). The company said it named the device a FinFET because, in three dimensions, it resembles the backfin of a fish. The company said this size -- 9nm is 1/10,000th the width of a single human hair -- would allow designers to pack the computational power of a supercomputer into a space smaller than a fingernail. The company said it has produced operational FinFETs at a gate length of 35nm, matching the current and leakage targets set by industry roadmaps for transistors of this size and producing new performance records. Chenming Hu, TSMC’s CTO, said the company has recently further improved the FinFET, creating gate lengths below 25nm that achieved yet higher performance. Company researchers have also simulated the structure to operate within generally acceptable parameters at 9nm.