Changing the materials used to make transistors could overcome a substantial roadblock to continuing to use current production processes to shrink transistor elements and thereby increase chip performance, enabling chipmakers to scale down feature sizes through several more generations.
Index Terms:
chipmaking, processor performance
Citation:
George Lawton, "The Next Big Thing in Chipmaking," Computer, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 18-20, Apr. 2007, doi:10.1109/MC.2007.148