"Researchers Claim New Chip Technology Beats Moore's Law"

A team of engineering researchers at Princeton University have announced a breakthrough chipmaking technology that promises to create more powerful chips faster and for much less cost. Lead researcher Stephen Chou says the method, called laser assisted direct input (LADI), beats Moore's Law and breaks preconceptions about what efficiencies are possible when making chips. However, Aberdeen Group semiconductor analyst Russ Craig is skeptical of Chou's claims, noting that large chipmaking companies such as Intel and Texas Instruments have not commented on the technology and that it is probably not yet mature.

LADI uses a quartz die to press designs into silicon, which is zapped with a laser for 20 billionths of a second so that it melts and molds around the quartz. Chou says the result is chips with features as small as 10 nanometers wide, compared with the 90 nanometers currently possible using the most advanced tools. The process also takes just a small fraction of a second while traditional etching processes can take up to 20 minutes per chip.
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