For many years the
semiconductor industry has been looking at ways to make the transistor smaller
and faster. As chip dies got down below 10 microns and transistors are
working at the atomic level they have hit a wall that nature has in place that
they have been trying to get over.
Well, it looks like
they may have found a way to get over the wall. Check out this article (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb06/2800)
and see what the latest transistor technology is. This article goes into
some really heavy technical descriptions of what is being worked on. Very
interesting.
Enjoy.
Phil