Nanometer Quotes

When it comes to 45 nanometers, going it alone is difficult technologically and financially. Doing it as a group helps reduce investment risks. - Masahiko Ishino

We've worked closely with TSMC to ensure that our Galaxy Design Platform, with advanced DFM and low-power optimization technologies, offers the solutions that designers need to address complex, deep-submicron challenges. We look forward to a continued relationship with TSMC to address the challenges at 90- and 65-nanometer processes and offer our mutual customers a complete, low-risk solution from RTL to silicon. - John Chilton

We believe that high-index liquid imaging will enable the extension of today's optical lithography through the 45- and 32-nanometer technology nodes. Our industry faces tough questions about which lithography technology will allow us to be successful below 32 nanometers. This new result gives us another data point favoring the continuation of optical immersion lithography. - Mark Slezak

Transistor budgets are exploding when you get to 65 and 45 nanometers, and the number of transistors is massive. Every chip is going to have significant blocks of technology, so the interconnects between those blocks would be an interesting place for us to look at. - Harold Hughes

There's no reason, in theory, why we can't replicate this effect at room temperature, and we've already seen emission at 1,300 nanometers where telecommunications lasers work. There are challenges still to be overcome, and I'd expect to see this in production in three to four years. - Andrew Shields

There is still huge design potential to harness 130- and 90-nanometer process technology. - Chris Rowen