To keep Moore's law
In 1965, company boss Gordon Moore Intel announced the evolution of computer speed. Consider that every 18 months the speed would double. So far, at least, Moore's law has been fulfilled, because the number of transistors entering a given surface has grown enough to maintain that law. However, the size of current transistors makes it increasingly difficult to maintain this law.
Now, Professor Stephen Chou of Princeton University has announced a new system to manufacture smaller transistors and has made it known in the journal Nature. This system is a type of mechanical printing. A quartz matrix is placed on the silicon layer of the chip. Subsequently, using a laser, the silicon is melted and the quartz matrix is inserted into the lower layer. In this way the aspect of the circuit is "printed".
Finally, when lifting the matrix, a simple circuit remains. According to the author, this system allows 10 in the thickness of a current transistor, so on the surface of a single current transistor 100 transistors can be introduced.
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