Chip Makers Gang Up for Advanced Processes
January 7, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Progressively shrinking the circuitry on chips has provided the world with an enormous improvement in computing power every year, but silicon-based circuits seem to be coming up against the limits of physics. That means no single vendor–with the current exception of Intel with its X64 monopoly–can rely on its own financial position to keep investing in ever-more-clever technologies to make faster chips. So most of the major players are ganging up to collaboratively come up with new chip-making processes. In December, Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said that it would join an alliance of chip and electronic equipment suppliers put together |
