Big Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today’s chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week. Indicating its technology may postpone a “high-risk” conversion to difficult and expensive alternatives for the semiconductor industry, IBM said its scientists have created the smallest, high-quality line patterns ever using deep-ultraviolet (DUV) 193-nanometer optical lithography, a version of today’s practice of printing circuits on chips used for computers and other electronic devices.
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IBM Pushes Boundaries of Chip-Making Technology
Posted by: Jay Lyman February 21, 2006 02:05 PMBig Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today’s chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week. Indicating its technology may postpone a “high-risk” conversion to difficult and expensive alternatives for the semiconductor industry, IBM said its scientists have created the smallest, high-quality line patterns ever using deep-ultraviolet (DUV) 193-nanometer optical lithography, a version of today’s practice of printing circuits on chips used for computers and other electronic devices.