Amazing Breakthrough: Nanotechnology Creates New Microchip World

Nature has always been the expert self-assembling patternmaker, from seashells to snowflakes. In a groundbreaking application, IBM will use this “borrowed” technology to produce microchips that are 35 percent faster, and consume 15 percent less energy than the very most advanced conventional chip currently available.

This new IBM patented self-assembly process is so impressive because it uses a nanotechnology manufacturing method that was up until now, something that no one has been able to take outside of the laboratory and harness for commercial manufacturing. The self-assembly process enables the nano-scale patterning to be much smaller than current lithographic techniques have ever achieved.

This is also a breakthrough in the field of nano-technology, which is heavy on theory, but still relatively light on application. The “prophet” of nano-technology Richard Feynman, a brilliant Caltech physicist who later won a Nobel Prize for "fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics" delivered an exciting speech in 1959. Feynman proposed a new field "in which little has been done, but in which an enormous amount can be done in principle…the problem of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale." He went on to describe the future of a peculiar technology, which at the time was unnamed. Most consider him to be the father of modern nanotechnology.

Feynman believed that someday we would be able to manipulate the very atomic structure of things to the point that we could store all the information in the world in a space the size of a pinhead. We’re not there yet, but we’re getting just a little closer.

Posted by Rebecca Sato

*adapted from news release issued by Albany NanoTech College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering

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Yeah its really amazing break through.Thanks for posting...