06.14.2018 - 45-Nanometer Manufacturing

p>In 2005, Moore’s Law was approaching a wall. To continue doubling the transistor capacity of chips in accordance with Gordon Moore’s principle, the transistors in the next generation of microchip would have to shrink to a mere 45 nanometers or 45 billionths of a meter — about 30 percent smaller than the 65nm chips that …...