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Date Posted: 08:22:23 04/11/01 Wed
Author: SM78
Subject: More Proof of AntiChrist/Star Trek Technology

From ABC Gnus

8 April 11 � Engineers say they have found a breakthrough way to make "superchips" that will allow computers to keep getting faster and more powerful � and allow previously unimaginable innovations in medicine, science and consumer electronics.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
New Frontiers New Lease on Life for Silicon

They say the new technology is crucial to sustain Moore's Law � that the speed and power of computer chips will double every 18 months. The semiconductor industry has lived by that dictum for nearly 40 years, but with current technology chip makers faced hitting a wall in about five years.
"It is definitely a critical breakthrough," says Rick Stulen, chief operating officer of the Virtual National Laboratory, the online combination of three national labs: Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia.

In cooperation with commercial chip makers, the labs developed a brand new manufacturing technique, using the narrow wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light to get even more information on them. The new chips' features are so small they can only be seen with an electron microscope.

Current technology uses visible ultraviolet light � usually at a wavelength of 248 or 193 nanometers (100 nanometers is about 1/1,000th the width of a human hair) � to etch circuits onto silicon chips.

But that limits the size of the chip features to no smaller than that size. Extreme ultraviolet light has a wavelength of 13 nanometers � allowing chip makers to print a transistor element just 40 atoms wide.

"It's analogous to writing � the finer the tip of your pen, the smaller the features you can write," says Bill Replogle, the project's systems engineering team leader. "Smaller wavelength, smaller features: more powerful chip."

The extreme ultraviolet light is produced by shooting a laser of infrared light into a xenon beam, creating a plasma that generates radiation at many different wavelengths.

Scientists at the Sandia lab had come up with this technique while researching the response of different materials to the high-energy pulses envisioned for the "Star Wars" Strategic Defense Initiative.

Because extreme ultraviolet light's wavelength is so short, it is absorbed by air. So the work must be done in a vacuum.

New Frontiers

"With increased capability in these new chips, will be able to do things that we just simply cannot do now," says Stulen.

Powered by these chips, computers will complete 400 million calculations in a 50th of a second � 30 times faster than today's 1 gigahertz processors.

"We'll look back on today five years from now and be amazed at what we can do," he says.

The potential applications are limitless. But scientists at Intel Corp., the lead company on the project, say the biggest impact for the consumer could be in voice and face recognition. They cite these examples:

Telephone anywhere in the world, and your words will be translated into any language instantly � and with the right inflection.
Talk to your computer in everyday language, tell it any item you want, and it will immediately buy it at the cheapest price.
Install a home security system that recognizes your face as quickly as you recognize your own family.

The new technology is the result of a one-of-a-kind, five-year, quarter-billion-dollar joint venture by the nation's leading chip makers � Intel, AMD, Motorola, Micron and Infineon � and the three national labs.

"The innovation comes from the national laboratories," says Stulen. "The applications pull comes from our industry partners."

New Lease on Life for Silicon

Using current techniques, processing speed for silicon chips would have hit a ceiling in five years or so. The new technology extends their potential.

"Without this, the computer industry would become like the automobile industry � turning out the same, slow models year after year," says Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research, an independent firm that monitors the semiconductor industry.

Engineers say the new technology will carry the next generation of computer chips through about 2020. The next limitation to further shrinking chip features is the atomic structure of silicon itself. At some point, silicon will become obsolete and scientists will have to find a new breakthrough.

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