Today at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM
scientists unveiled several research breakthroughs that could
lead to major advancements in delivering dramatically smaller,
faster and more powerful computer chips. For more than 50 years,
computer processors have increased in power and shrunk in size
at a tremendous rate. However, today's chip designers are
hitting physical limitations with Moore's Law, halting the pace
of product innovation from scaling alone. With virtually all
electronic equipment today built on complementary-symmetry
metal- oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, there is an urgent
need for new materials and circuit architecture designs
compatible with this engineering process as the technology
industry nears physical scalability limits of the silicon
transistor. Following years of key physics advances previously
only achieved in a laboratory, IBM scientists successfully
integrated the development and application of new materials and
logic architectures on 200mm (eight inch) d