Intel Atom 32nm Chip in Q4

Really surprise me when saw the articles. I thought my semicon lecturer told us that its very hard to shrink the Gate Length of MOSFET beyond 45nm. Imagine the technical challenges that one will face, how they going to fabricate the chip in terms of photolithography. The wavelength of shortest visible light source (violet - 380nm) which is used in the process is way bigger than the gate length of the MOSFET.

Anyway, more readings here.

• http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/MDXOrl_nqPY/arm-attacks-atom-with-2ghz-a9-can-servers-be-far-behind.ars
• http://laptopcom.blogspot.com/2008/12/intel-sets-release-date-of-32-nm-chip.html
• http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20081209006560&newsLang=en