IBM, Hitachi team up to advance 32nm and 22nm chip research
IBM and Hitachi are expected to announce a research agreement on Monday in which the companies will collaborate to improve semiconductor technology, including shrinking the features on silicon chips. Researchers from the companies will try to accelerate the miniaturization of chip circuitry by researching at the atomic level for 32-nanometer and 22-nanometer semiconductors. Making chip circuits smaller should allow computing devices to deliver power savings and performance gains. It will also make manufacturing more efficient, IBM said.
Chip makers such as IBM, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices are constantly upgrading their manufacturing technologies to shrink chips. Intel began switching its manufacturing process to 45-nanometer chips last year, and AMD is scheduled to make a similar move later this year. Intel recently said it hopes to shrink the features on its chips to 22nm by 2011. Engineers from the companies will conduct research at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Albany NanoTech Complex, also in New York.
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