Friday, March 23, 2007

Nanoelectronics in China

Intel and China were set today to announce plans to build the company's first 'fab' plant in China. Estimated to cost some $2.5 billion, the new plant will likely produce 90 nanometer feature chips with more sophisticated nanoscale electronics made elsewhere.

4 comments:

  1. I am surprised that they did not try to jump straight to 45nm as their nanotech efforts seem to be intended to put them ten years ahead of us.

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  2. Intel, for nat'l security reasons, was reluctant to put the latest generation of chip fab technology in China. See the piece in today's NYT Business section (March 27, 2007)

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  3. Also, see this link:
    http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_INTEL?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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