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Home > News > Nanotechnology researchers say shrinking computer chips is a tall order

August 13th, 2003

Nanotechnology researchers say shrinking computer chips is a tall order

Abstract:
Researchers at Texas Instruments and the University of North Texas in Denton received $2.2 million this summer to find a way to build computer chips half the size of those currently in use. The new chips would be about 500 atoms across, said Phillip Matz, a TI researcher working on the project. By comparison, a human hair is about 100,000 atoms across. The goal is smaller, more powerful chips.

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