Intel?s research agenda includes 90-nanometer fabrication processes and work in extreme ultraviolet lithography that will help extend Moore?s law. It also embraces disruptive technologies exemplified in devices such as micro-electromechanical-systems microradiators, smart antennas, and radiofrequency components for analog switches, resonators, and filters; ad hoc sensor networks with wireless communications; and photonic devices such as optical switches and cheap tunable lasers.

To implement these advances, Intel has created a network of university-based labs that group the corporation?s scientists with academic researchers to form multidisciplinary teams. These lablets leverage industry and academic synergy to nurture off-the-roadmap ideas and technologies and provide a proving ground for testing their viability.